Fideism

[fee’-day-iz-um]
(Latin fides, “faith”)
Literally “faithism.” Fideism is the belief that faith is antithetical to reason. In Christian apologetics, fideists believe in a necessary dichotomy between rational intellectual conviction and spiritual emotional conviction. Faith, to them, is strongest in the absence of evidence. Many would critique this approach believing it misunderstands and misdefines faith as that which […]

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