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This volume provides an explanation and defense of a view of faith and reason found in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and others that is often called fideism. Carefully distinguishing indefensible forms of fideism that involve a rejection of reason from responsible forms of fideism that require reason to become self-critical, C. Stephen Evans unfolds a Kierkegaardian view that genuine...

enjoying social relations with other persons. (Christians go on to believe that in being a Trinity, three persons in one, God’s very being is social in character, even apart from his relations to humans and other persons.) So what does it mean to have faith in such a God? Minimally, perhaps, it might mean faith that God exists. Certainly many discussions in the philosophy of religion focus on belief in God as a belief that there is a God. (The locution ‘to believe in X’ is ambiguous; it can mean
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