Does faith abolish the gift of reason?

God created us to be rational beings, not irrational beasts. And He reveals His Self and His works to us, not to abolish our minds, but to exalt them, so that our human nature accepts

35 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 5.5 (NPNF II/7:30), amended.

36 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 5.7 (NPNF II/7:30–31), amended.

Him and come to know His mysteries . God spoke to Moses “as a man speaks to his friend” (Ex. 33:11), and He longs to enter into a dialogue with every believer.

St. Clement of Alexandria affirms that Christianity exalts the human mind and does not abolish it, but rather increases it in wisdom. He makes it clear that human knowledge is necessary to understand the Holy Scriptures, but not without God's help.³⁷ “… the soul is raised to God: trained in the true philosophy, it speeds to its kindred above, turning away from the lusts of the body, and besides these, from toil and fear.”³⁸ He says, “A noble hymn of God is an immortal man, established in righteousness, in whom the oracles of truth are engraved. For where but in a soul that is wise can you write truth?”³⁹