Whitehead reversed the common cartoon of medieval versus modern: the moderns were the fideists and the medievals the partisans of “unbridled rationalism” (p. 9). ❋ M_francis (2009)
Like fideists in Christianity, the mythicist standpoint seems to say "Simply doubt, and you will know the truth." ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)
Coyne and K eith Milller are fideists- they beleve no reason can be givenfor belief. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Coyne and K eith Milller are fideists- they beleve no reason can be given for belief. ❋ Unknown (2006)
UPDATE: When a rabid atheist and a bunch of rabid fideists thank you, Mr. Hitchens are in agreement and religion is a major part of the subject, you know that a certain decision needs to be reviewed. ❋ Unknown (2005)
There were also fideists who went to the opposite extreme, abandoning the speculative enterprise entirely and foregoing the benefits—the understanding—that can be achieved for faith only through a disciplined use of reason. ❋ Mortimer J. Adler (1982)
Catholic fideists and a somewhat indifferent Protestant. ❋ ROGER L. EMERSON (1968)
Skepticism deriving from classical sources, the works of Michel de Montaigne and Protestant and Catholic fideists, was developed philosophically and applied to historical and religious works by libertins such as Cyrano de Bergerac and érudits, including Gabriel Naudé, La Mothe le Vayer, and Giovanni Diodati — respectively two nominal ❋ ROGER L. EMERSON (1968)
Deists have generally subscribed to most of the follow - ing propositions, and have ranged widely from Chris - tian rationalists or fideists to atheists: ❋ ROGER L. EMERSON (1968)
The author's general position was that the categories in terms of which both fideists like Jacobi and their rationalist critics thought were inadequate for their subject matter. ❋ H. B. ACTON (1968)
For some fideists, human reason cannot of itself reach certitude in regard to any truth whatever; for others, it cannot reach certitude in regard to the fundamental truths of metaphysics, morality, and religion, while some maintain that we can give a firm supernatural assent to revelation on motives of credibility that are merely probable. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Some fideists also contend that human rational faculties are themselves untrustworthy, because the entire human nature has been corrupted by sin, and as such the conclusions reached by human reason are therefore untrustworthy: the truths affirmed by divine revelation must be believed even if they find no support in human reason. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some of these, in fact, are atheists, and believe that there are serious problems with these and all arguments for the existence of God; but some of them are fideists (from Latin fides), meaning that they believe we cannot justify the existence of God rationally, but we are nevertheless justified in believing through faith. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To generalize, what the thinkers labeled “fideists” have tended to find objectionable is not reason per se, but evidentialism ” i.e., the doctrine (expressed forcefully by Clifford) that beliefs can be rational only if they are supported by evidence. ❋ Amesbury, Richard (2009)
These are sometimes called moderate fideists, for, though they maintained that human reason is unable to know the fundamental truths of the moral and religious orders, they admitted that, after accepting the teaching of revelation concerning them, human intelligence can demonstrate the reasonableness of such a belief. (cf. Ubaghs, Logicae seu ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The [writings] of [Immanuel Kant] are a [primary source] of fideist thought. ❋ Odesseyandoracle (2003)
