Concept
Faith
Overview
basic attitude of trust, especially in the context of religious convictions
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Possible passages
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Faith, the Spirit and justification have love as effect and fruitage, and not as mere ornament and supplement. We maintain that faith alone justifies and saves. But that we may not deceive ourselves and put our trust in a false faith, God requires love from us as the evidence of our faith, so that we may be sure of our faith being real faith.
Martin Luther, Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2
The chapter “LOVE THE SPIRIT'S FRUIT RECEIVED BY FAITH.” is titled for Faith; names Faith several times.
In listing faith among the fruits of the Spirit, Paul obviously does not mean faith in Christ, but faith in men. Such faith is not suspicious of people but believes the best. Naturally the possessor of such faith will be deceived, but he lets it pass. He is ready to believe all men, but he will not trust all men.
Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
The chapter “FAITH” is titled for Faith; names Faith several times.
His instinct gives the highest honours to an ethic of self-effacement; he is prompted to embrace it by everything: his prudence, his experience, his vanity. Every sort of faith is in itself an evidence of self-effacement, of self-estrangement.... When one reflects how necessary it is to the great majority that there be regulations to restrain them from without and hold them fast, and to what extent control, or, in a…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Antichrist
Names Faith several times; states what Faith is.
Philosophers who discussed Faith
- John Rawls
- William Godwin
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Thomas Aquinas
- Nagarjuna
- Sam Harris
- Jean-François Lyotard
- William Kingdon Clifford
- Ayn Rand
- Peter Abelard
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Islam
- Karl Löwith
- The End of Faith
- J. L. Schellenberg
- Raymond of Sabunde
- Zera Yacob (philosopher)
- Martin Knutzen
- Nikolay Lossky
- Henryk Hiż
Related ideas
- Belief
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Reformed epistemology
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jesus
- Anglo-Norman language
- Foundationalism
- Hinduism
- Philosophy
- Pure Land
- Abraham
- Immanuel Kant
- Alister McGrath
- Ancient Greek
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Analytic philosophy
- John Calvin
- Moksha
- Philosophical theory
- Latin
- Nonviolence
- Muhammad
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.