I’ve enjoyed ten years of working in faith-based organizations (FBOs) that fight AIDS, and have seen much to inspire, educate, and horrify me. I’ll base my comments on human rights and love, both of which are biblical principles, even if “human rights” isn’t stated in those terms in the Bible. There is a lot that is compelling about the work of FBOs in AIDS and a lot that, while compatible in t...

in razi’s view, faith and safety, is a root taken from the words of “tasdigh (confirming)” and “aman (safety)” and in literature it means “recognization and confirimation by heart”and “admitting by words”; when recognition by heart is achieved, verbal confession is also achieved. he believes that the conceptual bases of faith are “recognition and accepting by heart” and “verbal confession” and ...

Faith is the desire to believe in something as true, or, if not absolutely true, then at least dependable. Faith seems to have been promoted through evolutionary trends, and, as such, it is a concoction of deep brain processes. Related to faith is the concept of truth. Truth is an ephemeral mental construct. We each have some idea of the meaning of truth. Most of the time, our ideas of truth re...

whenever we are discussing the nature of faith, we often have a classification based on the object of faith. accordingly, faith is generally either propositional or non-propositional. it means that if faith belongs to one or several propositions, its nature is also propositional and a kind of knowledge. but if the object of faith is a real thing or person, the nature of faith is related to such...

the aim of this article is to extract dimensions of religiosity in quranic verses which is made possible by analyzing the qualitative contents and grounded theory. findings show that faith and good deeds are two fundamental dimensions of religiosity and by them man gets promoted from potentiality to actuality or from deficiency to perfection. by internalizing the theoretical dimensions of relig...

A ‘doxastic venture’ model of faith – according to which having faith involves believing beyond what is rationally justifiable – can be defended only on condition that such venturesome believing is both possible and ethically acceptable. I show how a development of the position argued by William James in ‘The will to believe ’ can succeed in meeting these conditions. A Jamesian defence of doxas...