Religion and Reason (ePub)

Although a Roman Catholic by rearing and education, I was never tempted into business or to become a clergy person, I began my higher education with an Honor's bachelor degree having a double major in Classical Languages (Latin and Greek) and Philosophy at Xavier University of Ohio. A teaching fellowship from Saint Louis University brought experience teaching Philosophy to undergraduates, a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy with a thesis on human understanding, and some work on a doctorate. Marriage and the arrival of children caused an interruption in studies while I taught Philosophy in the evening back at my undergraduate college. By day I became a Systems Analyst, helping to convert a large life insurance company from a punch-card system to the then newly-created digital computers.
Life took an unusual turn when, after reading a Time Magazine article (June, 1961, "Religion"), I was accepted into an experimental program formed at the University of San Francisco to train professional lay evangelists for the Roman Catholic Church. A year of graduate studies, mostly in theology, followed and then I spent four years as an evangelist in California parishes. We evangelists, all college graduates and at least twenty-eight years of age, were directed specifically to try to convert the un-churched and I led more than a hundred adult persons to Baptism. This bold experiment was interrupted by the Roman Catholic Ecumenical Council, Vatican II, and parishes became more focused on updating than reaching out for converts.
Always interested in theology more than philosophy, I took the opportunity to return to graduate studies when, just at that time, a doctoral program was opened for laity at Marquette University. With a good grasp of Greek, I was eager to do a doctoral dissertation in the Gospel of St. John. Fate intervened. The man on the faculty who led such studies took a leave of absence and I had no time or money for any delays. I turned to my Lutheran,

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