Faith is a subset of existential courage, involving the willingness to act with trust in the potential goodness of being despite the reality of tragedy.

“one of the things that I've started to toy with is the idea that faith is actually a subset in some sense of of existential courage”

Faith and reason are compatible and the existence of God can be reached through philosophical arguments independent of faith.

“I guess I would say that even if I don't have an answer to the problem of evil, I can still say given my experience and given all these arguments I have for God's existence which outweigh this argument, I can conclude that evil exists and I don't understand it.”

Faith and reason are in harmony, serving as two wings that help the human person ascend toward truth.

“john paul ii put it in a very beautiful way he said that faith and reason are two wings that the human person uses to fly up towards the truth and so the idea is that there's a kind of harmony”

Faith is a necessary condition for reason, as it serves as the foundation and the purpose for all inquiry.

“faith is is never against reason but it's the condition for the possibility and the purpose of reason”

Human beings cannot discover some fundamental truths through mere analysis; one must live them out as an act of faith, similar to a leap into the unknown.

“I think that there are some truths that you cannot simply discover you have to live them you have to make the experiment”