Cognitive opacity and the analysis of faith

Acts of faith interiorized through a glass only darkly

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ID20310458
AuthorsDaniel J Mckaughan (0000-0002-1633-1942, Boston College, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume54
Issue4
Pages576-585
Publication date2018-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligious Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034412517000440
OpenAlexW2898581897
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

In conversation with Morgan (2015), I point out that the view of relational faith I have elsewhere defended (McKaughan 2013, 2016, 2017) fits rather well with the understanding of pistis that emerges from Morgan's careful reading of New Testament texts. Moreover, the fact that New Testament authors display little interest in examining interior aspects of faith makes it difficult to justify the claim that their understanding of the pistis lexicon requires believing in the modern sense as the attitude Christians must take towards relevant content, in contrast to various other positive but non-doxastic attitudes that philosophers recognize today. Such faith is of contemporary interest, given its congruity with early Christian tradition, the role it can play in helping relationships to persevere through various kinds of challenges (including doubts significant enough to preclude believing), and for the wide range of evidential circumstances in which it can be enacted with intellectual integrity

Aesthetics · Conversation · Doxastic logic · Epistemology · Faith · Lexicon · Linguistics · New Testament · Old Testament · Reading (process) · Theology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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