{"id":42019,"date":"2017-05-10T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42019"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T15:06:45","slug":"faith-reason-cooperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/faith-reason-cooperate.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Faith and reason cooperate.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33246\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/800px-20110225_Israel_0415_Jerusalem_5540487348.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33246\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33246\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/800px-20110225_Israel_0415_Jerusalem_5540487348.jpg\" alt=\"Herod's Temple\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The temple of Jerusalem as it appeared in 66 AD, about three and a half decades after the crucifixion of Jesus and just prior to the Roman destruction of temple and city during the First Jewish Revolt. \u00a0This wonderful outdoor model of late Second Temple Jerusalem stands on the grounds of the Israel Museum.<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The prominent evangelical Protestant philosopher J. P. Moreland earned a degree in chemistry before proceeding to degrees in theology and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>\u201cIn Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. \u00a0Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. \u00a0So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. \u00a0They are not intrinsically hostile.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>J. P. Moreland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\">\n<\/p><p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Jerusalem<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The prominent evangelical Protestant philosopher J. P. Moreland earned a degree in chemistry before proceeding to degrees in theology and philosophy. \u00a0 \u201cIn Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. \u00a0Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. \u00a0So faith and reason cooperate on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Faith and reason cooperate.&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; The prominent evangelical Protestant philosopher J. P. 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