The Retreat to Commitment

accept argued atheist authoritarian Ayer Barth basic belief Bible Biblical Christ Christian Century Christian identity Church claim comprehensive rationalism comprehensively critical rationalism concepts contemporary critical rationalist culture dilemma of ultimate disagree doctrine Dogmatics empiricist estant ethic example fact faith Harvard historical Jesus human idea important impossible integrity intellectual interpretation irrational commitment irrationalism justified Karl Barth least limits of rationality logic ment moral Morton White neo-orthodox Niebuhr notion one's opponents Paul Tillich person philosophy political Popper positivists possible practice presuppositions principle problem Prot Protestant Christian Protestant liberalism Protestant theologians Protestant thought Protestantism question quoque argument rational authority rationalist identity refute Reinhold Niebuhr reject religion religious revision scientific sense experience situation social spiritual statement symbols T. S. Eliot theologians theology theory Tillich tion tional truth tu quoque ultimate commitment unity W. H. Auden W. V. Quine Word