Why Faith Has No Formula
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/11/17/why-faith-is-no-formula/ Nov 17 2013 @ 12:33pm Wittgenstein once wrote that “Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.” Reviewing Nathan Schneider’s God in Proof , Robert Bolger believes the statement captures how arguments for the divine actually function: Assenting to a proof for God is similar; it is couched in the language of rationality — it argues for the existence of something. Yet, as I hint at in my own book, Kneeling at the Altar of Science , the impetus behind accepting a religious proof as valid comes from a person’s gut (or soul) and not merely from her mi...