I just discovered that John Stackhouse has been posting on some of the themes I’ve been musing on over the past few weeks. They are grouped under the heading ‘Do You Have to Choose Between Your Brains and Your Beliefs?” and his latest discussion of the relationship between faith and knowledge is a more concise summary of what I think I meant all along.
A sample: “Life demands that we go beyond our comfort zones–even, and especially, our epistemic comfort zones–to risk… not stupidly, to be sure, but not in perfect safety, either. Welcome to the real world.”