id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6115 Faith and rationality - Wikipedia .html text/html 4310 790 49 Rationalism holds that truth should be determined by reason and factual analysis, rather than faith, dogma, tradition or religious teaching. The Catholic Church also has taught that true faith and correct reason can and must work together, and, viewed properly, can never be in conflict with one another, as both have their origin in God, as stated in the Papal encyclical letter issued by Pope John Paul II, Fides et ratio ("[On] Faith and Reason"). Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others. The right tool for understanding the world outside of the Bible for Luther is none other than Reason which for Luther denoted science, philosophy, history and empirical observation. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6115.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6115.txt