Rationalists, less so.

Rarely does someone abandon religion because of a question he cannot answer.

A rationalist sermon delivered to a congregation of wavering souls.

Profayt Duran and Honoratus de Bonafide.

An alternative to rationalism.

He professed a religion he continued to scorn.

Although the prophet Samuel declares that “the Glory of Israel does not lie,” most medieval Christian theologians, going back to Augustine, believed that although God. . .

According to the late Leo Strauss, some of the West’s greatest devotees of philosophical truth and reason encoded their beliefs in hints, irony, and deliberate. . .

In classical Judaism, does prayer have a mystical influence on events in the world, or is it solely about Jews’ relationship with God—or are both views valid?