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Definition of Fideism
1. reliance on faith rather than reason [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fideism
Literary usage of Fideism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theater of Man: J.L. Vives on Society by José A Fernández-Santamaría (1998)
"But the truth of the matter is that sixteenth-century fideism does not always
emerge out of conditions like those outlined for Agrippa's case. ..."
2. Modern French Legal Philosophy by Alfred Fouillée (1916)
""fideism," though the word does not occur in the Oxford and Century dictionaries,
is treated by the editors of the Catholic Encyclopaedia as sufficiently ..."
3. Freedom and Authority in Religion by Edgar Young Mullins (1913)
"It thus easily appears in what sense Symbolo-fideism is scientific. ...
Symbolo-fideism is a life-preserver donned by theology under the depressing sense of ..."
4. Through Scylla and Charybdis: Or, The Old Theology and the New by George Tyrrell (1907)
"How alien such " fideism " is from my whole system of thought may be seen in my
two articles on ... Is ML quite sure as to what he means by " fideism ? ..."
5. Pragmatism and Idealism by William Caldwell (1913)
"a | And as to the fourth tendency, there is, at its outset, according to M.
Lalande, a more rational or ethical basis for the fideism of M. ..."
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