The best way to combine faith and reason after Kant is through the approach of Leonard Nelson and his new Friesian School. Sadly, the best spokesman for this approach, Kelley Ross, does not seem to be updating his website [friesian.com] anymore. There were -- great thinkers before that that also walked this path of faith and reason, but they were all before Kant, and thus do not take the points of the mind-body problem into account, nor Kant's solution. Though Hegel also can be understood as taking the place of Aquinas in bringing about a faith and reason approach (see Kaufman), still he never actually deals with the mind-body problem directly. [Hegel assumes Kant has answered the question by the aperception idea, the self. the self is not experienced, it experiences. and those experiences are combined with concepts. and those concepts are combined togother with the experiences. thus synthetic apriori knowldge is possible and the mind body problem is solved.] [i might add here that kant only answers this question by half. he proves the self must combine concepts with sense data but he does not show how. he gives a weak ant how conpts and sense data are empty without the other. yetthe argument where one side proves the other side and the other side prves the first side is like defining cold as that which makes one feel cold by slowing the atomes down. the shows that that which slows atomes down makes one feel cod. you have not proved or showed snything. it is a circular argument. but it still contains the solution tothe mind body proble. for as fries and nelson noted, there is a layer of knowledge which is not derived by reason nor sense data.
