Description
The aura of sanctity surrounding religious texts often makes the believer a passive recipient, indifferent to their complexities and ambiguities. What is required of them is to serve as a moral guide, a path to a sound and balanced psychological and intellectual life. When the text succeeds in this task (as it usually does), the need to rationalize it and ponder its complexities diminishes, leaving these to specialists who still hold differing opinions on the matter. However, reason, which seeks conviction after faith, moves its adherents from a state of passive reception of the text to one of active engagement with it, from overlooking its problems to reflecting upon them. For faith of the heart without the conviction of reason remains fragile and incomplete. Human beings are a balanced blend of heart and mind, and a healthy life is achieved when neither dominates the other.
This book is addressed to seekers of pure, unbiased knowledge, and to believers who are people of reason, not those who merely adhere to the letter of the law.
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