Faith and Reason: Supernatural Faith

My intention in the last two episodes has been to disabuse us of the idea that faith and reason are somehow fundamentally at odds with one another or that faith is an exclusively religious phenomenon, by showing that faith is a natural, rational, and practically unavoidable mode of human knowing. We believe things by faith when we trust in the testimony of another. If the person that we believe is trustworthy, then our faith will be, to that extent, reasonable.But what about theological faith, or what has traditionally been called the theological virtue of faith? Is there anything unique or special about the kind of faith that Christian believers have in God and in his redemptive work in Christ? It is now time for us to consider this important question.