[[Image:John_Paul_II.jpg|thumb|200px|John Paul II]]Pope John Paul II wrote '''''Fides et Ratio'' Faith and Reason''' an [[Encyclical|Encyclical Letter]] to the bishops of the whole Catholic Church on the relationship between faith and reason (dated 14 September, 1998). He asserts that what is distinctive in the biblical text is the conviction that there is a profound and indissoluble unity between the knowledge of reason and the knowledge of faith, and therefore, reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way; thus there is no reason for competition of any kind between reason and faith: each contains the other, and each has its own scope for action. | [[Image:John_Paul_II.jpg|thumb|200px|John Paul II]]Pope John Paul II wrote '''''Fides et Ratio'' Faith and Reason''' an [[Encyclical|Encyclical Letter]] to the bishops of the whole Catholic Church on the relationship between faith and reason (dated 14 September, 1998). He asserts that what is distinctive in the biblical text is the conviction that there is a profound and indissoluble unity between the knowledge of reason and the knowledge of faith, and therefore, reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way; thus there is no reason for competition of any kind between reason and faith: each contains the other, and each has its own scope for action. |