Faith-In' and In-Faith - Reply to Professor H. H. Price
In two recent essays, H. H. Price has offered an interesting approach to the reducibility theory' which yields several important distinctions that should be drawn between various meanings of belief-in' and belief-that' These distinctions go far towards illuminating the uniqueness o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[1967]
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Religious studies
Year: 1967, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 247-254 |
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| Summary: | In two recent essays, H. H. Price has offered an interesting approach to the reducibility theory' which yields several important distinctions that should be drawn between various meanings of belief-in' and belief-that' These distinctions go far towards illuminating the uniqueness or—depending upon your point of view—oddness of religious faith. It may be useful to examine Price's reducibility theory' and the basic distinctions he has drawn in order to point the way toward a related analysis of usage which he neither undertakes nor considers explicitly—that of the distinctly different function (i.e. meaning and use) of a similar if not equally commonplace expression: in-faith'. This latter analysis is called for, it seems to me, for several reasons. In the first place, Price himself vaguely suggestsmdaash;but does not discuss— the possibility that talking about being in the faith attitude' is not necessarily the same as talking about believing or having faith-in Someone'. Secondly, it may be argued that the use of the expression in-faith' conveys, in certain instances, much more of the uniqueness of the theist's position than do the expressions belief-in'or faith-in'. Thirdly, the claim—sometimes made—that the faith situation' (experience', encounter', meeting', confrontation', or whatever it may be) transcends the grasp of reason is perhaps more readily pointed to by using the expression in-faith'. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Belief 'In' and Belief 'That' (1965)"
Kritik von "Faith and Belief, in: Faith and the Philosophers Seite 3-25" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002808 |