The Postulate of Paradox

Abstract

"As evangelicals all of us, I suppose, bristle indignantly if we are charged with adherence to a fideistic irrationalism. A fideistic irrationalism indeed! Our Gospel, we vehemently assert, is the embodiment of reason-belief-ful reason, to be sure, sanctified reason, if one prefers so to characterize it, but reason evertheless. Intolerant of contradiction and wary of anything akin to a Kantian antinomy, we delight to quote John McTaggert's dictum: "None ever went about to break logic, but in the end logic broke him."l Proclaiming a God Who cannot contradict Himself and Whose very nature therefore supplies the laws of thought, we argue---most of us, at any rate---that our faith ought to be accepted precisely because of its intellectual cogency. Wholeheartedly we endorse what one of my own professors, Edwin Lewis, wrote: Christianity "