Faith
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"This singularly modern idea—which resurges periodically in later philosophy, for example in Kant's conception of the 'ideas' of reason, in Kierkegaard's notion of the 'leap' of faith, in the neo-Marxist theory of praxis and in the existentialist concept of commitment—possesses less philosophical merit than rhetorical impact." --A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1982) by Roger Scruton "If the origins of art are to be found in religion, the movies are surely the universal secular faith of the twentieth century."--The Hollywood Hallucination (1944) by Parker Tyler |
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The word "faith" can refer to a religion itself or to religion in general. As with "trust", faith involves a concept of future events or outcomes, and is used conversely for a belief "not resting on logical proof or material evidence." Informal usage of the word "faith" can be quite broad, and may be used in place of "trust" or "belief."
Faith is often used in a religious context, as in theology, where it almost universally refers to a trusting belief in a transcendent reality, or else in a Supreme Being and/or this being's role in the order of transcendent, spiritual things.
Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true. It is the belief and the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, based on his or her authority and truthfulness.
Etymology
The English word faith is from 1200 to 1250, from the Middle English feith, via Anglo-French fed, Old French feid, feit from Latin fidem, accusative of fidēs (trust), akin to fīdere (to trust).
See also
- Belief
- Delusion
- Dogma
- Faith and rationality
- Incorrigibility
- Leap of faith
- Life stance
- Major religious groups
- Numinous
- Pascal's wager
- Piety
- Rationalism
- Religious conversion
- Saint Faith
- Simple church
- Spectrum of theistic probability
- Theological virtues
- There are no atheists in foxholes
- Truthiness
- Unfaithful
- Worldview
