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Oct 24, 2012 · Faith gives us precisely this: it is a confident entrustment to a “You”, who is God, who gives me a different certitude, but no less solid than that which comes from precise calculation or from science. Faith is not a mere intellectual assent of the human person to specific truths about God; it is an act with which I
James attacks all brands of “faith” that fall short of the Biblical standard. What I and others have sometimes termed “mental assent” James characterizes as mere hearing, empty profession, demonic orthodoxy, and dead faith. 1. Mere hearing.
Jul 30, 2024 · To give intellectual assent is to agree with something on a factual basis. Faith involves intellectual assent, and intellectual assent is an important part of faith, but faith is much more than knowing facts. Faith does not mean that you suspend your intellect. Someone once defined faith as “believing what you know isn’t true.”.
If nothing specific to faith is taken into account and faith is seen as a mere intellectual assent given to divine revelation, then no difference can be detected between Christian philosophy and the way philosophy is usually conducted. This means that there is only one way of philosophizing, no matter whether religious beliefs are involved.
- Roberto Di Ceglie
of fides implicita or implicit faith made faith out to be a mere unknowing assent to whatever the church teaches.2 While Roman Catholicism does indeed stress the personal aspect of faith, such faith is to assent to the truths whatever they are as taught by the Church, and thus there is no true resting of one’s hope upon the person of Christ. 3
True faith is repentant faith, as today’s passage reveals (Luke 18:9–14). The tax collector had true sorrow for his sin and faith in God’s mercy. Therefore, he was justified. The Pharisee, however, showed no repentance, thereby invalidating his profession of faith and revealing he was not justified in the Lord’s eyes.
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tion as perfect faith, one would have to think of faith as a graded phenomenon. However we may formulate the total integration of the fullness of faith, the process in the believer represents some degree of that faith. Faith is, therefore, a range, a spectrum, that reaches from the lowest degree of mere assent and
