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Totalitarianism or a revitalization of Christianity are the alternatives facing the world today, Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Vanderbilt said last night in the first of a series of four talks on "Meaning and Chaos."
"No context of explanations is so fittingly explanatory of everything as Christianity," he said. Christianity provides an answer to the three enemies of human progress: ignorance, indifference, and fear.
Ferre also said that both faith and reason are necessary to human understanding. Reason enables man to make empirical observations and deductions which faith can relate to a more universal context.
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