positively viewed rationality. It is, rather, a question of powers that attempt to determine a person’s behavior in this way or that. This behavior, however, is not something that is acquired secondarily: a human being is by nature a creature that behaves and acts. Thus it depends on how this behavior and action are determined. In other words, faith is not something that basically concerns only a person’s thinking and self-understanding, with one’s actions arising as secondary matters. A human being