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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...

said to possess, but in Swinburne’s words, involved a readiness to act to achieve certain good purposes, ‘relying on the belief … that God will do for us what we want or need’.6 So when Catholics insisted that faith alone (in the sense of mere propositional belief) was not sufficient for salvation, they were not necessarily contradicting the Protestant view that faith (in a richer sense that includes a willingness to be obedient) is sufficient. The Protestant concept of faith, while quite different
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