reasoned leap

Andrew Greeley's book Jesus--a Meditation on His stories and His Relationships with Women is a good read. The last sentence of the book speaks of our relationship to God being a "leap of faith, not a blind leap surely, but a reasoned leap into wonder and mystery and surprise."

The Catholic theological sensibility always combines mystery and rationality. So, a "reasoned leap of faith" holds at bay the extreme position of faith without reason. But it's also a leap into "wonder and mystery and surprise." It doesn't degenerate into rationalism (no mystery).