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fideism
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fi·de·ism  (fd-z-m, fd-)
n.
Reliance on faith alone rather than scientific reasoning or philosophy in questions of religion.
[Probably from French fidéïsme, from Latin fids, faith; see bheidh- in Indo-European roots.]
fide·ist n.
fide·istic adj.
fideism [ˈfiːdeɪˌɪzəm]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) the theological doctrine that religious truth is a matter of faith and cannot be established by reason Compare natural theology
[from Latin fidēs faith]
fideist  n
fideistic  adj
fideism
a reliance, in a search for religious truth, on faith alone. — fideist, n. — fideistic. adj.
See also: Faith


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I am thinking here of the many manifestations all over the world now of a vigorous fideistic fervor that is often named as fundamentalism.
The post-secular: a Jewish perspective by Diamond, James S. / Cross Currents
But the other "penumbral presence" in this story is the fideistic Savonarola, whom almost all of Ficino's circle elected to follow and whose role resembles--strange as it might first appear--that of a latter-day Pythagoras.
Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum. by Allen, Michael J.B. / Renaissance Quarterly
The latter is mystical, fideistic, evangelical, and Roman, into pilgrimage, procession, chant, and punctilious (often Latin) liturgy.
L'EGLISE DE FRANCE : The church in a postreligious age by Englund, Steven / Commonweal
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