2. According to Newbigin, how is the modern ideal of certainty an illusion? Do you agree or disagree with him?

IN THE DISCUSSION BOARD, PLEASEANSWER THE TWO QUESTIONS BELOW, THEN ANSWER TWO ADDITIONALQUESTION FROM A-F.

2. How does Michael Polanyi’s model help answer Newbigin’s question: “How can we speak confidently about truth, beauty, and goodness when we know that what we say can always be doubted” (47)?

B. According to Newbigin, Augustine “…sought and did not find, but was found by the one he sought” (12). How have you experienced Augustine’s credo ut intelligam (I believe in order to know) in your own faith walk?

C. In this emerging postmodern age, how does Newbigin help us find certainty?

D. Where does Cartesian thought fail?

A. How has Descartes fueled postmodern skepticism?

B. After reading Newbigin, how is faith the only certainty in our spiritual formation and discipleship? Do you agree? Why or why not?

C. What role does revelation play for Newbigin? How does it tie in to our spiritual formation?