What Faith Really Means

Faith is *rational*; it's the response of the mind that leads us to believe based on the authority of the one who tells us. We have "faith" when scientists tell us that our cells each contain forty-six chromosomes, or that lithium atoms have three protons; we haven't counted them or done the experiments ourselves. It is perfectly rational for us to have this faith; those who tell us such things have *authority*; and we believe what they tell us precisely due to that authority. But what about when *God* tells us something? Should we not respond with an even stronger faith; indeed, with a supernatural faith, a faith that only God can give us? In this little book, Fr. Graham goes through all these things: what faith is, why we should have it, and the foundation of the authority on which we base it. An excellent resource for showing that our faith is, indeed, supernatural; but it is also *rational*, a necessity in this pseudo-rational age.