Islam

  • Controversies: Faith and Reason [Spring 2026]

    Description Our guiding questions: Is the act of faith or belief in revelation distinct in kind from the operations of reason?  Can reason prove faith?  Can reason disprove faith?  Can reason show faith as compatible with reason? | How is the faith to be made known?  Sacred texts, whether the Bible, Qur’an, or Torah, have…

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  • On Christianity and the Interpretation of Philosophy

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on the influences of Christian belief on philosophical interpretation, and of philosophical wisdom on the practice of the Christian faith. Is there such a thing as “Christian philosophy”?  Today, thinking of antiquity draws new interest.  The texts of Plato and Aristotle, Plotinus and Porphyry—even the fragments of Parmenides and Heraclitus, the…

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  • How Truthful is the “Proof of the Truthful”?

    In the third Lyceum Institute Colloquium of the year, we present Dr. Catherine Peters, who takes up a controversy between the Islamic philosophers Avicenna and Averroes concerning the “proof of the truthful”: ABSTRACT: The “Proof of the Truthful” is Avicenna’s most famous argument for the existence of God. Beginning with the essential possibility of creatures,…

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