help or hinder religious experience? People have wrestled with such questions for hundreds of years, an they are just as perplexing today as ever. Reason & The Contours of Faith explores the wide-ranging issues these questions rise, from biblical interpretation and proofs for God's existence to the nature of religious conversion. Its central purpose is to find an alternative to both fideism, the idea that reason has nothing to do with faith, and rationalism, the conviction that reason has everything to do with it. Part One, "Reason and the Contents of Faith", argues that reason contributes in important but limited ways to our understanding of religion. Part two, "Reason and The Experience of Faith", shows that reason can support religious commitment, but never produces it. Richard Rice is Professor of Theology at La Sierra University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago Divinity School, with a dissertation on the natural theology of Charles Hartshorne. His previous books include God's Foreknowledge and Man's Free Will, When Bad Things Happens to God's People, and The Reign of God, a college textbook on Christian doctrines. Reason & the Contours of Faith brings to expression some twenty years of reflections on the topic. (from book's back cover)

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