单词 | explicit belief |
释义 | > as lemmasexplicit belief a. Theology. explicit faith, explicit belief: the acceptance of a doctrine with distinct apprehension of all that is logically involved in it. Opposed to implicit faith at implicit adj. 3a. ΚΠ 1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. lviiv It is neither your acquisite ne your formed ne vnformed faith.., neither your explicite ne implicite faith, neither your fained ne deade faith. 1598 T. Stoughton Gen. Treat. against Poperie 276 In the law of nature that explicite faith was sufficient, which might be had in the naturall vnderstanding with out any bookes. 1605 R. Smith Answer to T. Bels Challeng vii. i. 284 Though they [sc. traditions] be not such, as the actual and explicite beleefe of them be so necessarie, as none whatsoeuer can be saued without it. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 119 Every man is bound to have a personall explicite Faith of his own. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon ii. 85 The explicite beliefe of them is no necessary part of Christian communion. 1707 G. Keith Necessity of Faith 12 Cornelius and his Friends, had not the Explicit Faith that Jesus was the Christ, until it was Preached unto him by St. Peter. 1788 tr. I. Mouradgea d'Ohsson Oriental Antiq. 117 By the faith here alluded to, is meant an explicit and formal belief of the dogmas, which is considered as absolutely necessary to salvation. 1846 Brownson's Q. Rev. Jan. 36 From these and many other texts which might be adduced, it is evident that explicit faith in the principal or primary doctrine is necessary as the medium of salvation. 1880 R. F. Littledale Plain Reasons xxv. 73 Implicit belief in the Pope is not sufficient; that must be explicit. 1909 G. Tyrrell Christianity at Cross-roads 18 The distinction just mentioned between implicit and explicit belief; between the cloak folded and the cloak outspread. 1936 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Texas) No. 24. 252 Explicit faith, the opposite of implicit, involved assent only when reason clearly perceived the nature of the doctrine or mystery. 2011 I. Levy Let. to Galatians 76 The patriarchs were certainly holy..but they did not possess an ‘explicit faith’ as did the people of the New Testament, to whom the truth was openly revealed through Christ. < as lemmas |
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