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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 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.

When Scripture Becomes Sacrament

For most of my life, reading the Bible primarily meant trying to get something out of it. Sometimes that was doctrine, sometimes guidance, sometimes reassurance, and sometimes just a verse to prove I was right (I mean, who hasn’t?). But beneath those reasons was a deeper assumption I rarely questioned: God could speak through these words because God was ultimately the author behind them. As I expl

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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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