It wouldn't hurt to review the entry on faith in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/faith/). In its second paragraph, it distinguishes between a broad definition of faith as trust or belief and the narrower notion of religious faith (think of the email traffic we could have saved if we'd looked this up earlier…). It goes on to explore different models of religious faith some of which the group has discussed and some of which it hasn't:
- *the ‘purely affective’ model*: faith as a feeling of existential confidence - *the ‘special knowledge’ model*: faith as knowledge of specific truths, revealed by God - *the ‘belief’ model*: faith as belief *that* God exists - *the ‘trust’ model*: faith as belief *in* (trust in) God - *the ‘doxastic venture’ model*: faith as practical commitment beyond the evidence to one's belief that God exists - *the ‘sub-doxastic venture’ model*: faith as practical commitment without belief - *the ‘hope’ model*: faith as hoping—or acting in the hope that—the God who saves exists. In short, there's a reason baby Jesus invented Google. Every time you don't use it to inform a discussion, an angel dies. —R On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve, > > OK. Those seem like two distinct meanings of "faith." I was talking and > thinking of your second one. > > *-- Russ * > > > >
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