Reason, Faith & Authority: a Shiite Perspective

Chapters

1. [Introduction]
2. The status of reason
3. Different roles of reason
4. Role of Reason in understanding Moral Values
5. Faith & Reason
6. The Nature of Faith
7. Faith requires reason
8. Faith supports and strengthens reason
9. Authority
10. Principle One: Obedience belongs only to God
11. Principle Two: Human freedom
12. Principle Three: Delegation of obedience
13. Principle Four: Authority of the Prophet
14. First: Delivering Divine Message
15. Second: Judgement
16. Third: Rule
17. Principle Five: Delegation of the Prophet’s Authority to Imam Ali and successive Imams
18. Principle Six: Delegation of the authority of Imams to the jurists
19. Who is a faqih?
20. The role of jurists in the time of minor occultation
21. Bibliography