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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...

‘Faith’s conflict with the world is not a battle of thought with doubt, thought with thought … Faith … is a battle of character.’1 Part of the genius of the Danish philosopher-theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) was a sure grasp of the idea that faith is not primarily intellectual in nature. In Kierkegaard’s language, faith is a passion, and the passions are enduring traits that shape a person’s character. However, it does not follow from the fact that faith is not primarily intellectual
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