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obstacles which prevent reason from the effective and fruitful use of this inborn faculty. For the truths that concern the relations between God and man wholly transcend the visible order of things, and, if they are translated into human action and influence it, they call for self-surrender and abnegation. The human mind, in its turn, is hampered in the attaining of such truths, not only by the impact of the senses and the imagination, but also by disordered appetites which are the consequences of original sin. So it happens that men in such matters easily persuade themselves that what they would not like to be true is false or at least doubtful.
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faith has." However, Luther conceded that, grounded upon faith in Christ, reason can be used in its proper realm, as he wrote, "Before faith and the knowledge of God reason is darkness in divine matters, but through faith it is turned into a light in the believer and serves piety as an excellent instrument. For just as all natural endowments serve to further impiety in the godless, so they serve to further salvation in the godly. An eloquent tongue promotes faith; reason makes speech clear, and everything helps faith forward. Reason receives life from faith; it is killed by it and brought back to life."
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Fideism has received criticism from theologians who argue that fideism is not a proper way to worship God. According to this position, if one does not attempt to understand what one believes, one is not really believing. "Blind faith" is not true faith. Notable articulations of this position include:
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also affirms that God's existence is in fact demonstrable by reason, and that attempts to reason otherwise are the results of sin. In the encyclical, John Paul II warned against "a resurgence of fideism, which fails to recognize the importance of rational knowledge and philosophical discourse for the
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Wittgenstein stated that "Christianity is not based on historical truth; rather, it offers us a historical narrative and says: now believe! But not, believe this narrative with the belief appropriate to a historical narrative, rather: believe, through thick and thin". For Wittgenstein you should "not
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Though human reason is, strictly speaking, truly capable by its own natural power and light of attaining to a true and certain knowledge of the one personal God, who watches over and controls the world by his providence, and of the natural law written in our hearts by the Creator; yet there are many
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is that reason is incapable of attaining knowledge of the existence of God or the immortality of the soul, a point with which Hamann would agree. The most important difference on this point is that Kant did not think that this gave way to antirationalism, whereas Hamann did. As a result, a qualified
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he argued that everything people do is ultimately based on faith. Without faith (for it can never be proven) in the existence of an external world, human affairs could not continue; therefore, he argued, all reasoning comes from this faith: it is fundamental to the human condition. Thus all attempts
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to see faith in God as a cost-free choice that carries a potential reward. He does not attempt to argue that God indeed exists, only that it might be valuable to assume that it is true. Of course, the problem with Pascal's Wager is that it does not restrict itself to a specific god, although Pascal
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taught that faith informs the Christian's use of reason. Regarding the mysteries of Christian faith, he wrote, "All the articles of our Christian faith, which God has revealed to us in His Word, are in presence of reason sheerly impossible, absurd, and false." And "Reason is the greatest enemy that
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William James published many works on the subject of religious experience. His four key characteristics of religious experience are: 'passivity', 'ineffability', 'a noetic quality', and 'transiency'. Due to the fact that religious experience is fundamentally ineffable, it is impossible to hold a
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defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone, accompanied by a consequent disparagement of reason and is used especially in the pursuit of philosophical or religious truth". The fideist therefore "urges reliance on faith rather than reason, in matters philosophical and
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coherent discussion of it using public language. This means that religious belief cannot be discussed effectively, and so reason does not affect faith. Instead, faith is found through experience of the spiritual, and so understanding of belief is only gained through the practice of it.
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Natural theologians may argue that Kierkegaard was a fideist of this general sort: the argument that God's existence cannot be certainly known, and that the decision to accept faith is neither founded on, nor needs, rational justification, may be found in the writings of
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God, the origin and end of all things, can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from the created world (cf. Rom. 1:20), that is, from the visible works of creation, as a cause from its effects, and that, therefore, his existence can also be
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take the same attitude to it as you take to other historical narratives...there is nothing paradoxical about that!" and that "The historical accounts in the Gospel, might historically speaking, be demonstrably false yet belief would lose nothing by this".
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argues that certain aspects of Wittgenstein's thought have been interpreted by Wittgensteinians in a "fideistic" manner. According to this position, religion is a self-contained—and primarily expressive—enterprise, governed by its own internal logic or
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Pascal, moreover, contests the various proposed proofs of the existence of God as irrelevant. Even if the proofs were valid, the beings they propose to demonstrate are not congruent with the deity worshiped by historical faiths, and can easily lead to
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Who then will blame Christians for not being able to give reasons for their beliefs, since they profess belief in a religion which they cannot explain? They declare, when they expound it to the world, that it is foolishness,
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form of fideism is sometimes attributed to Kant. This modified form of fideism is also evident in his famous suggestion that we must "deny knowledge in order to make room for faith".
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Some critics note the successful use of reason in the daily lives of people to solve problems. That reason has led to an increase of knowledge, including in the sphere of science.
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Ockham was a fideist, holding that belief in God is only a matter of faith and not from knowledge; this led him to deny all the alleged proofs of God.
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did have in mind the Christian version (referred to both by Jews and Christians as God), as is mentioned in the following quote. In his
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did not write systematically about religion, though he did lecture on the topic (e.g., student notes published as
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The Comeback of "Simple Faith": The Ultra-Orthodox Concept of Faith and Its Development in the Nineteenth Century
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Plantinga, Alvin (1983). "Reason and Belief in God" in Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.),
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is associated with radical fideism, holding that religious truth can only be gained by rejecting reason.
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The doctrine of fideism is consistent with some, and radically contrary to other theories of truth:
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necessary, else one would not be able to make sense of any human experience (see also epistemic
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promoted a view that elevated faith alone as the only guide to human conduct. Using the work of
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that try to confine what he feels is the infinite majesty of God into a finite human creation.
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have responded in various ways to the place of faith and reason in determining the truth of
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religious", and therefore may go on to disparage the claims of reason. The fideist seeks
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This article is about the epistemological theory. For the new religious movement, see
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doctrine rejects fideism, with its earliest condemnations dating back to 1348. The
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Another course of fideist thinking within the Catholic Church is the concept of "
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On the other hand, some deny Tertullian's fideistic character, the statement "
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understanding of faith, indeed for the very possibility of belief in God".
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Luther, Martin (1883–2009), "Die Sammlung von Konrad Cordatus (Schluß)",
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to base belief in God using reason are in vain. He attacks systems like
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than fideism, though it has sometimes been critical of both.
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Epistemological theory that faith is independent of reason
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taught fideistic concepts such as the later philosophers
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Tertullian's 892: 852: 846: 841: 835: 822:Alvin Plantinga 819: 724: 720: 697: 667: 663: 653: 624: 623: 610: 578:Problem of evil 548: 540: 539: 480: 479: 463: 462: 433:Omnibenevolence 403: 395: 394: 269: 261: 260: 196:Great Architect 156: 148: 147: 48: 28: 17: 12: 11: 5: 4319: 4309: 4308: 4303: 4298: 4293: 4288: 4283: 4278: 4261: 4260: 4258: 4257: 4252: 4247: 4242: 4236: 4233: 4232: 4230: 4229: 4224: 4219: 4214: 4209: 4204: 4199: 4194: 4188: 4186: 4182: 4181: 4179: 4178: 4171: 4166: 4161: 4156: 4151: 4146: 4141: 4136: 4131: 4126: 4121: 4116: 4111: 4106: 4101: 4096: 4091: 4086: 4081: 4076: 4071: 4066: 4061: 4056: 4048: 4039: 4037: 4031: 4030: 4028: 4027: 4022: 4017: 4012: 4007: 4002: 3997: 3992: 3987: 3982: 3977: 3972: 3967: 3962: 3957: 3952: 3947: 3942: 3937: 3932: 3927: 3925:Constructivism 3922: 3916: 3914: 3908: 3907: 3905: 3904: 3897: 3892: 3887: 3882: 3877: 3875:Baruch Spinoza 3872: 3870:P. F. Strawson 3867: 3862: 3860:Susanna Siegel 3857: 3852: 3847: 3842: 3837: 3835:W. V. O. 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Index

Faithism
Politics of Fidel Castro
Theism
Agnosticism
Apatheism
Atheism
Classical theism
Deism
Henotheism
Ietsism
Ignosticism
Monotheism
Monism
Dualism
Monolatry
Kathenotheism
Omnism
Pandeism
Panentheism
Pantheism
Polytheism
Transtheism
Brahman
Creator
Demiurge
Deus
Father
Form of the Good
God
Great Architect

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