Abstract

Eleonore Stump has accomplished in this collection of essays, what every thinking editor desires: the occasion for unencumbered enquiry and the chance for further dialogue, even perhaps intellectual progress. Collated in honor of Norman Kretzmann, a medievalist and contributor to the philosophy of religion like herself, Stump has collected essays ranging from epistemological concerns in the philosophy of religion to the more mundane but nevertheless decidedly important issues of "heaven" and "hell." All of the essays espouse the philosophical criterion of reason to investigate matters of faith, hence the title of the volume. Although the more pious intelligentsia may dismiss the hermeneutical use of reason as mere rationalism and the more phenomenological may dismiss the possibility of the intellectual legitimacy of faith, the informed and careful reader will discover on each page an opportunity for conversation conducted with respect both for reason and faith.