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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...

when we believe that person to be a person of good character. We are, for example, properly more likely to believe that a person will do what he or she promises when we believe that the promiser is a person who is trustworthy. To say that we trust a person is to say that one would be inclined to believe the person even when that person says something that one has some reason to doubt. Though trust can be present even where there is no reason to doubt, it shows itself particularly when there is reason
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