ABSTRACT
If anyone has a passion for reason, and if they wish to address fundamental questions, it has been argued that although there is no indubitable starting point, a rational approach is possible, and there is a logic to the order in which the quest for answers should be described. First, we need to establish that the questions are meaningful, or coherent. Then we must establish that reason is a tool that can be used with some hope of reaching at least provisional, universal answers. Next, we must review the range of general positions that intelligent people have come up with. After that, the quest has taken a new turn, because it has proceeded on the assumption that theism is a possible option, and has then looked at a range of options within theism. In this context, I defended the plausibility of a form of Christianity that is traditional in some respects – for example, in holding a doctrine of the Trinity. Later in this chapter, I shall take the Trinitarian position as a startingpoint and pursue the quest for rational options just one step further, considering the grounds on which a narrower choice, perhaps involving a particular denomination, might properly be made. In this context liberal Anglicanism will be presented as a rational choice, but not the only rational choice.
