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Bryan N. Smith

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Bryan N. Smith is a creative thinker who is passionate about exploring the world of faith and the life of the mind. He is the author of Faith Seeking Belief, founding member of Christianity on Tap, and a former Chapter Director for both the New Canaan Society as well as Reasonable Faith. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Houston Christian University, and briefly pursued a Ph.D. in Humanities from Faulkner University before leaving to pursue further study through the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University. He and his family reside near Dallas, TX. For more information, visit www.bryannsmith.com. ...more

Wrestling with the Bible

It’s strange to look back and realize how much the Bible has changed for me. Not in its content, of course, but in the way I see it. Both the way I’ve carried it and the way it’s carried me. For years it was the solid, immovable center of everything, a kind of divine codebook waiting to be unlocked. It was a set of timeless truths, arranged like gemstones in a crown, each one to be mined, polished

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“Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.”
Bryan N. Smith, Faith Seeking Belief: A Philosophical Case for the Viability of Christian Agnosticism

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.”
Bryan N. Smith, Faith Seeking Belief: A Philosophical Case for the Viability of Christian Agnosticism

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