fideismn.
/ˈfiːdeɪɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfʌɪdɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfideɪˌɪzəm/ Any doctrine according to which all (or some) knowledge depends upon faith or revelation, and reason or the intellect is to be disregarded, as (a) = traditionalism n.; (b) a Roman Catholic theory developed from Kantian idealism; (c) in Protestant usage, also derived from Kant, with reference to justification by faith.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [noun]
pre-Adamitism1790
anhypostasia1850
fideism1885
perpetualism1905
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) Traditionalism, a system of philosophy in which intellectual cognition, so far as the human mind is concerned, is reduced to belief in truth communicated by revelation from God, and received by traditional instruction through the medium of language, which was originally itself a supernatural gift. This system is also called Fideism, and is a reaction from the extreme of rationalism into an opposite extreme of anti~rationalism. De Bonald (d. 1840) is regarded as its author.
1895 Dublin Rev. Apr. 313 As to Fideism, see Dr. Hettinger's interesting classification of its four stages, as corresponding to the four stages of Rationalism, in his ‘Fundamental Theologie’, 1879, vol. ii. pp. 348–9.
1903 Hibbert Jrnl. 1 556 ‘Fideism’ denotes the material principle—the nature and condition of salvation through Christ.
1908 Programme of Modernism 142 Such scepticism destroys the certitude of the fact of revelation and ends in blind fideism.
1909 Catholic Encycl. VI. 68/2 Fideism owes its origin to distrust in human reason, and the logical sequence of such an attitude is scepticism.
1912 F. von Hügel Eternal Life ii. xii. 344 Rome is finely free from all Fideism or Pietism.
1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 503/1 Scholastic theologians regularly charged the Modernists with ‘Fideism’.
1966 Catholic Dict. Theol. II. 296/1 The doctrine of the last-named [sc. the Abbé Louis Bautain] is the fullest..expression of fideism and indeed has come to be almost identified with fideism.
1967 Philosophy 42 191 (title) Wittgensteinian Fideism.
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ˈfideist adj.
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1909 Catholic Encycl. VI. 68/2 For some fideists, human reason cannot of itself reach certitude in regard to any truth whatever.
1966 Catholic Dict. Theol. II. 296/1 Fideists like the Abbé Louis Bautain... The doctrine of the last-named is the fullest..expression of fideism and indeed has come to be almost identified with fideism.
fideˈistic adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [adjective]
pre-Adamite1863
fideistic1909
1909 Catholic Encycl. VI. 68/2 It is also a fideistic attitude which is the occasion of agnosticism..and other modern forms of anti-intellectualism.
1966 Catholic Dict. Theol. II. 296/1 Fideistic tendencies also appeared during the Middle Ages.
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