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Fideism
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Fideism 

the affirmation of the priority of faith over reason, which is characteristic of religious world views based on revelation. Fideism limits the sphere of scientific activity and denies the importance of scientific knowledge with regard to the world view, assigning a key role in the comprehension of the world to religious faith. Fideism is characteristic of many trends in idealist philosophy. According to V. I. Lenin, idealism is “merely a subtle, refined form of fideism” (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 18, p. 380).
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Although (as Gunton persuasively argues) Barth was not a fideist, he remained skeptical of the philosophical presuppositions that so many brought to theology.
Religion booknotes by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
There are religious fideists of various faiths who hold that moral truths cannot be known apart from God's special revelation.
Natural law by George, Robert P. / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
In an effort to establish a "'discursive milieu' for approaching the treatment of God in De Doctrina Christiana" (24), Lieb first qualifies Milton's debts to systematic theologians so as to categorize him, instead, as something of a systematic fideist, for whom "the use of proof-texts to demonstrate that God is beyond knowledge is rendered problematical by a determination to explain it all as rationally and as logically as possible" (92).
Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon by Trevor, Douglas / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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