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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

faith. The term is used in two distinct senses.(1) The body of truth (‘the Christian faith’) to be found in the Creeds, the definitions of Councils, etc., and especially in the Bible. This complex of doctrine is held to embody or to follow from the teaching of Christ and to be wilfully rejected by man only at the peril of his salvation.(2) To this objective faith is opposed ‘subjective’ faith. This is the human response to Divine truth, depicted in the NT as involving trust in God rather than intellectual assent. According to orthodox theologians, it is a supernatural, not a natural, act, and is dependent on God's action in the soul. It nevertheless demands an act of will. This voluntaristic movement in the act of faith accounts for the moral quality which it is held to possess and the conviction that wilful unbelief merits the censure of God. In the Middle Ages a distinction was drawn between those truths accessible to the human intellect by the light of natural reason, e.g. the existence of God, and those which could be appropriated only by faith, e.g. belief in the Trinity. At the Reformation faith received a new emphasis. M. Luther's teaching on justification by ‘faith alone’ stressed the voluntaristic side of faith, in so far as faith was allowed to be a human act at all. The chief moment in it was trust, a supremely personal trust in the atoning work of Christ. The old opposition between faith and knowledge re-emerged in such thinkers as I. Kant and S. Kierkegaard, for whom faith is so contrasted with knowledge as to be a subjective attitude without objective content. In the RC Church the Second Vatican Council initiated a new phase in the inter-confessional exploration of faith. It conceived of the ‘truth’ of ‘the Gospel’ in less exclusively propositional terms than previous theologians had done, and it recognized the importance of conscience, so that people must be called to affirmations of faith willingly.
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Faith

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Faith. The disposition of believers toward commitment and toward acceptance of religious claims. It has a distinct importance in Christianity because of Paul's insistence on justification by faith alone (Romans 4. 5, 9. 30; Galatians 3. 2), and his inclusion of faith in the three paramount virtues (along with hope and love, 1 Corinthians 13. 13). In this sense, faith can only be received from God as a gift of grace, and becomes the means through which belief is formed (fides qua creditur, ‘faith by which it is believed’). But faith also becomes ‘the Faith’, the gradual accumulation through time of that which is believed by Christians, faith as assensus, assent (fides quae creditur, ‘faith which is believed’).

For faith in Buddhism, see ŚRADDHĀ; in Islam, see ĪMĀN.
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faith

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

faith / fā[unvoicedth]/ • n. 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something: this restores one's faith in politicians. 2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion. ∎  a system of religious belief: the Christian faith. ∎  a strongly held belief or theory: the faith that life will expand until it fills the universe.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

faith faith will move mountains with the help of faith something naturally impossible can be achieved; originally with biblical allusion to Matthew 17:28, ‘If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain; Remove to yonder place; and it shall remove.’ The saying is recorded from the late 19th century.

see also confession of faith.
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fáith

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

fáith. Old and Middle Irish word for seer or prophet, describing both male and female examples; the powerful Scáthach who taught Cúchulainn is conventionally described as a ban-fháith [woman fáith]. Probably the Irish cognate of what classical commentators represented in the word vates. See also W GWELEDYDD; GWAWD; ModIr. fáidh.
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Faith

-Ologies and -Isms | 1986 | Copyright

151. Faith

See also 285. MYSTICISM ; 349. RELIGION ; 392. THEOLOGY .

fideism
a reliance, in a search for religious truth, on faith alone. —fideist , n. —fideistic . adj.
pistic
referring to or having a pure and genuine faith.
pistology
the branch of theology that studies the characteristics of faith.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

faith trust; belief; faithfulness; loyalty. XII. ME. fe(i)þ — AN. fed, OF. feid, feit (pronounced feiþ) :- L. fidēs, fide- f. *fid- var. of *fīd- in fīdus trust-worthy, fīdere trust, rel. to Gr. peíthein persuade, pístis faith, f. IE. *bhidh- *bheidh- *bhoidh-,
Hence faithful XIII.
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A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Faith ♀ From the abstract noun denoting the quality of believing and trusting in God. The name began to be used in the 16th century, was very popular among the Puritans of the 17th, and is presently enjoying a modest comeback.
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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Faith

of merchants: company of merchants—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.
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A Dictionary of Buddhism | 2004 | | Copyright

faith. See śraddhā.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

faith see creed .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

faith •faith, Galbraith, inter-faith, wraith

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