Swindal’s discussion leads to an interesting discussion around faith and reason. He mentions the early Christian apologists who were both incompatibilists as well as compatibilists. Tertullian, one such an apologist, proclaimed, “Christianity is not merely incompatible with but offensive to natural reason.” St Augustine on the other hand was “a strong compatibilists.” He defined reasoning of faith in God as “an act of the intellect determined not by reason, but by the will” (Swindal, n.d., n.pag). In reality, one could determine that one’s will is one’s reason (to have faith in God). St Augustine does make the determination “that one cannot genuinely understand God until one loves Him.” This would reflect on the deep feelings that are equated
