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Some denominations believe in the <a href="/wiki/New_Covenant" title="New Covenant">New Covenant</a> and in the doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity" title="Salvation in Christianity">salvation</a> by <a href="/wiki/Justification_by_faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Justification by faith">faith alone</a> (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">sola fide</i></span>). According to most <a href="/wiki/Christian_tradition" title="Christian tradition">Christian traditions</a> and denominations, Christian faith requires a belief in the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrection of Jesus</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Agony_in_the_Garden" title="Agony in the Garden">Agony in the Garden</a> which Jesus states is the plan<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/God_the_Father" title="God the Father">God the Father</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Protestant Reformation</a> of the 16th century, the meaning of the term <i>faith</i> has been an object of major <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">theological</a> disagreement in <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a>. The differences have been largely overcome in the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Declaration_on_the_Doctrine_of_Justification" title="Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification">Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification</a> (1999). The precise understanding of the term "faith" differs among the <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">various Christian traditions</a>. Despite these differences, Christians generally agree that faith in Jesus lies at the core of the Christian tradition, and that such faith is required in order to be a Christian. </p><p>Some of the definitions of faith in the history of <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">Christian theology</a> have followed the biblical formulation in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Hebrews%2011:1&version=nrsv">Hebrews 11:1</a>: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Christian faith builds on <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> faith because the promises of the Old Testament are accepted as being fulfilled in the ministry, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Testament">New Testament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: New Testament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The word "faith", translated from the Greek <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:πιστις">πίστις</a></i> (<i>pi'stis</i>), was primarily used in the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> with the Greek perfect tense and translates as a noun-verb hybrid; which is not adequately conveyed by the English noun. The verb form of <i>pi'stis</i> is <i>pisteuo</i>, which is often translated into English versions of the New Testament as 'believe'. The adjectival form, <i>pistos</i>, is almost always translated as 'faithful'. The New Testament writers, following the translators of the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) rendered words in the Hebrew scriptures that concerned 'faithfulness' using <i>pi'stis</i>-group words. The <i>pi'stis</i>-group words are most appropriately translated into English by a range of words, depending on the context in which they occur. In both the New Testament and other Greek texts, <i>pi'stis</i> describes connections of <i>firmness</i> that can form between a wide variety of entities: people, traditions, practices, groups, purposes, facts or propositions. The appropriate English translation is often evident from the relationship between the two entities connected by <i>pi'stis</i>. The <i>pi'stis</i>-group words in the New Testament can thus be interpreted as relating to ideas of faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty, commitment, trust, belief, and proof. The most appropriate interpretation and translation of <i>pi'stis</i>-group words in the New Testament is a matter of recent controversy, particularly over the meaning of <i>pi'stis</i> when it is directed towards Jesus.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Specific_verses">Specific verses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Specific verses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Now faith (<i>pi'stis</i>) is the assurance of things hoped for, the <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">conviction</a> of things not seen.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Hebrews 11:1<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote><p> This passage concerning the function of faith in relation to the <a href="/wiki/Biblical_covenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical covenant">covenant of God</a> is often used as a definition of faith. <i><span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">Υποστασις</span></span></i> (<i>hy-po'sta-sis</i>), translated "assurance" here, commonly appears in ancient <a href="/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus">papyrus</a> business documents, conveying the idea that a <a href="/wiki/Covenant_(law)" title="Covenant (law)">covenant</a> is an exchange of assurances which guarantees the future transfer of <a href="/wiki/Possession_(law)" title="Possession (law)">possessions</a> described in the <a href="/wiki/Contract" title="Contract">contract</a>. In view of this, <a href="/wiki/James_Hope_Moulton" title="James Hope Moulton">James Hope Moulton</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Milligan_(moderator)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Milligan (moderator)">George Milligan</a> suggest the rendering: "Faith is the <i>title deed</i> of things hoped for".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In recent decades, scholars have researched what <i>pi'stis</i> meant in the social context of the New Testament writers. Several scholars who have studied the usage of <i>pi'stis</i> in both early Greek manuscripts and the New Testament have concluded that 'faithfulness' is the most satisfactory English translation in many instances.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This recent research has prompted some to argue that New Testament faith and belief in Jesus should be understood in terms of faithfulness, loyalty, and commitment to him and his teachings, rather than in terms of belief, trust and reliance.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Catholic_Church">Catholic Church</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Catholic Church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg/220px-Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg/330px-Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg/440px-Holy_Trinity_Column_-_Faith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Relief of allegory of faith on the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Column_in_Olomouc" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc">Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> considers that faith is twofold. </p> <ul><li>Objectively, faith is the sum of truths revealed by God in <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Bible" title="Catholic Bible">Scripture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sacred_tradition" title="Sacred tradition">tradition</a> and which the Catholic Church presents in a brief form in its <a href="/wiki/Creed" title="Creed">creeds</a>.</li> <li>Subjectively, faith stands for the habit or <a href="/wiki/Virtue#Christianity" title="Virtue">virtue</a> by which these truths are assented to.<sup id="cite_ref-Pope_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pope-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Assent to divine revelation on the basis of God's truthfulness is termed "divine faith"; this is distinguished from "human faith," which is the simple assent to the propositions of other human beings.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faith_as_a_theological_virtue">Faith as a theological virtue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Faith as a theological virtue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>, faith is "the act of the <a href="/wiki/Intellect" title="Intellect">intellect</a> assenting to a Divine truth owing to the movement of the will, which is itself moved by the grace of God" (St. Thomas, II-II, Q. iv, a. 2). And just as the light of faith is a gift <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernaturally</a> bestowed upon the understanding, so also this <a href="/wiki/Divine_grace" title="Divine grace">divine grace</a> moving the will is, as its name implies, an equally supernatural and an absolutely gratuitous gift.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faith_is_not_blind">Faith is not blind</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Faith is not blind"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style></i></p><i><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Lumen_fidei" title="Lumen fidei">Lumen fidei</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faith_and_rationality#Catholic_views" title="Faith and rationality">Faith and rationality § Catholic views</a></div></i> <p>"We believe", says the <a href="/wiki/First_Vatican_Council" title="First Vatican Council">Vatican Council</a> (III, iii), "that <a href="/wiki/Revelation" title="Revelation">revelation</a> is true, not indeed because the intrinsic truth of the mysteries is clearly seen by the natural light of reason, but because of the authority of God Who reveals them, for He can neither deceive nor be deceived." The Vatican Council says, "in addition to the internal assistance of His Holy Spirit, it has pleased God to give us certain external proofs of His revelation, viz. certain <a href="/wiki/Divinity" title="Divinity">Divine</a> facts, especially miracles and prophecies, for since these latter clearly manifest God's omnipotence and infinite knowledge, they afford most certain proofs of His revelation and are suited to the capacity of all." Hence <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a> writes: "A man would not believe unless he saw the things he had to believe, either by the evidence of miracles or of something similar" (II-II:1:4, ad 1). </p><p>In the Catholic Church, <a href="/wiki/Justification_(theology)" title="Justification (theology)">justification</a> is granted by God from baptism, the sacrament of faith.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_W._Tobin" title="Joseph W. Tobin">Joseph Cardinal Tobin</a> said: "religion is a lifestyle. It means that what I believe influences the way that I live."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eastern_Christianity">Eastern Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Eastern Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noetic_faculty">Noetic faculty</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Noetic faculty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Faith (<i>pistis</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a> is an activity of the <i><a href="/wiki/Nous#Christianity" title="Nous">nous</a></i> or spirit. Faith being characteristic of the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noesis" class="extiw" title="wikt:noesis">noesis</a> or <a href="/wiki/Nous" title="Nous">noetic</a> experience of the spirit. Faith here being defined as intuitive truth meaning as a gift from God, faith is one of God's uncreated energies (Grace too is another of God's uncreated energies and gifts).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The God in Trinity is uncreated or incomprehensible in nature, being or essence.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Therefore, in Eastern Christianity, God's essence or incomprehisibility is distinguished from his uncreated energies. This is clarified in the <a href="/wiki/Essence-Energies_distinction" class="mw-redirect" title="Essence-Energies distinction">Essence-Energies distinction</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Palamas" title="Gregory Palamas">Gregory Palamas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intuitive_truth">Intuitive truth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Intuitive truth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As God in Trinity, as the anomalies of God's essence or being.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2024)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In Eastern Christianity it is by faith or intuitive truth that this component of an object's existence is grasped.<sup id="cite_ref-Eastern_Church_1997._pg_71_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eastern_Church_1997._pg_71-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protestantism">Protestantism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Protestantism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> tradition, faith is generally understood to be closely associated with ideas of belief, trust, and reliance. This understanding is founded in the doctrinal statements of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformers" title="Protestant Reformers">Protestant Reformers</a>. One of their confessional statements explains: "the principle acts of saving faith are accepting, receiving, and resting upon <a href="/wiki/Solus_Christus" title="Solus Christus">Christ alone</a> for <a href="/wiki/Justification_(theology)" title="Justification (theology)">justification</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanctification_in_Christianity" title="Sanctification in Christianity">sanctification</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eternal_life_(Christianity)" title="Eternal life (Christianity)">eternal life</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Reformers contrasted faith with human efforts to do <a href="/wiki/Good_works" title="Good works">good works</a> as a means of justification.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This understanding of <i>saving faith</i> has remained within the Protestant tradition. Saving faith is generally understood in terms of a belief of, trust in, and reliance on the person of Jesus and his work of <a href="/wiki/Atonement_in_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Atonement in Christianity">atonement</a> accomplished through his death on the cross. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutherans</a>, saving faith is the knowledge of,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> acceptance of,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and trust<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the promise of the Gospel.<sup id="cite_ref-Engelder_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Engelder-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faith_as_steadfastness_in_reasoned_belief">Faith as steadfastness in reasoned belief</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Faith as steadfastness in reasoned belief"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/C.S._Lewis" class="mw-redirect" title="C.S. Lewis">C.S. Lewis</a> described his experience of faith in his book <i><a href="/wiki/Mere_Christianity" title="Mere Christianity">Mere Christianity</a></i> by distinguishing between two usages of the word. He describes the first as follows: "Faith seems to be used by Christians in two senses or on two levels ... In the first sense it means simply Belief."<sup id="cite_ref-isbn0-06-065292-6_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isbn0-06-065292-6-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several paragraphs later he continues with "Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."<sup id="cite_ref-isbn0-06-065292-6_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isbn0-06-065292-6-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faith_as_a_gift_of_God">Faith as a gift of God</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Faith as a gift of God"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paul writes in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Ephesians%202:8–9&version=nrsv">Ephesians 2:8–9</a>: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—not the result of works, so that no one may boast." From this, some Protestants believe that faith itself is given as a gift of God (<i>e.g.</i> the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith" title="Westminster Confession of Faith">Westminster Confession of Faith</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), although this interpretation is disputed by others who believe the <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_gender" title="Grammatical gender">gender</a> alignment indicates that the "gift" referred to is <a href="/wiki/Christian_salvation" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian salvation">salvation</a> rather than faith.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latter_Day_Saint_movement">Latter Day Saint movement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Latter Day Saint movement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="Latter Day Saint movement">Latter Day Saint movement</a></div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MORONI2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/MORONI2.JPG/188px-MORONI2.JPG" decoding="async" width="188" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/MORONI2.JPG/283px-MORONI2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/MORONI2.JPG/377px-MORONI2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1666" data-file-height="2508" /></a><figcaption>"And now, I, <a href="/wiki/Moroni_(Book_of_Mormon_prophet)" title="Moroni (Book of Mormon prophet)">Moroni</a>, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith." The <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Mormon" title="Book of Mormon">Book of Mormon</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon_(1981)/Ether#12:6" class="extiw" title="s:Book of Mormon (1981)/Ether">Ether 12:6</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Increase_ones_faith">Increase ones faith</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Increase ones faith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/James_O._Mason" title="James O. Mason">James O. Mason</a> said that there need to be 4 steps to increase ones faith.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Study</a>: The Prophet Joseph Smith instructed, “Faith comes by hearing the word of God, through the testimony of the servants of God.”<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Apostle_Paul" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostle Paul">Apostle Paul</a> counseled that through our prayers we "might perfect that which is lacking in [our] faith." <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/1_Thessalonians#3:10" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/1 Thessalonians">1 Thessalonians 3:10</a> <sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selfless_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Selfless service">Service</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sacrifice" title="Sacrifice">sacrifice</a>: The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, "Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Personal <a href="/wiki/Righteousness" title="Righteousness">righteousness</a>: The Savior taught, "If any man will do [God's] will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/John#7:17" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/John">John 7:17</a> <sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faith_as_a_seed">Faith as a seed</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Faith as a seed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Alma_the_Younger" title="Alma the Younger">Alma the Younger</a> describes faith as a seed in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon_(1981)/Alma#chapter_32" class="extiw" title="s:Book of Mormon (1981)/Alma">Alma 32</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Mormon" title="Book of Mormon">Book of Mormon</a>. This is the most comprehensive explanation of faith in the <a href="/wiki/Standard_works" title="Standard works">Standard works</a> of the <a href="/wiki/LDS_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="LDS Church">LDS Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac" title="Binding of Isaac">Binding of Isaac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Job" title="Book of Job">Book of Job</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rule_of_Faith" title="Rule of Faith">Rule of Faith</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Compare Matthew 26:39: "And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The importance of a belief in the resurrection is substantiated in several ways: (<a href="/wiki/1_Corinthians" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Corinthians">1 Corinthians</a> 15:1–4) '... the gospel I preached to you... Otherwise, you have believed in vain...'. The same book says, in 15:14: "<i>And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith</i>" (see also <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Acts of the Apostles">Acts</a> 2:32; <a href="/wiki/Philippians" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippians">Philippians</a> 3:10; <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">John</a> 11:25).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Compare: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFStarwalt1996" class="citation book cs1">Starwalt, Ervin R. (1996). "Eschatology of the Gospels". In <a href="/wiki/Mal_Couch" title="Mal Couch">Couch, Mal</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rPeo38M2d9UC"><i>Dictionary of Premillennial Theology</i></a>. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications. p. 127. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780825494642" title="Special:BookSources/9780825494642"><bdi>9780825494642</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2021-10-29</span></span>. <q>John's gospel is intended to conduct people to saving faith in Christ.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Eschatology+of+the+Gospels&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Premillennial+Theology&rft.place=Grand+Rapids%2C+Michigan&rft.pages=127&rft.pub=Kregel+Publications&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=9780825494642&rft.aulast=Starwalt&rft.aufirst=Ervin+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrPeo38M2d9UC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cf. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">"Faith". <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i>. Vol. 9. London-Chicago-Geneva-Sydney-Toronto: W. Benton. 1964. p. 40.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Faith&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.place=London-Chicago-Geneva-Sydney-Toronto&rft.pages=40&rft.pub=W.+Benton&rft.date=1964&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCameron1989" class="citation journal cs1">Cameron, Nigel M. De S. (1989-08-29). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27725472-06102017">"Christian Faith. An introduction to the study of the faith by Hendrikus Berkhof (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1986, xxii + 572 pp. £24.55)"</a>. <i>Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology</i>. <b>61</b> (2): 177–178. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F27725472-06102017">10.1163/27725472-06102017</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0014-3367">0014-3367</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:251993386">251993386</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Evangelical+Quarterly%3A+An+International+Review+of+Bible+and+Theology&rft.atitle=Christian+Faith.+An+introduction+to+the+study+of+the+faith+by+Hendrikus+Berkhof+%28Grand+Rapids%3A+Wm.+B.+Eerdmans%2C+1986%2C+xxii+%2B+572+pp.+%C2%A324.55%29&rft.volume=61&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=177-178&rft.date=1989-08-29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A251993386%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=0014-3367&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1163%2F27725472-06102017&rft.aulast=Cameron&rft.aufirst=Nigel+M.+De+S.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1163%2F27725472-06102017&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See A. J. Wallace, R. D. Rusk, <i>Moral Transformation: The Original Christian Paradigm of Salvation</i> (New Zealand: Bridgehead, 2011), pp 120–135 for a more detailed explanation of the different meanings <i>pi'stis</i> can take.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+11:1">Hebrews 11:1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Vocabulary of the Greek Testament</i>, 1963, p. 660)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Douglas A. Campbell, <i>The Quest for Paul's Gospel: A Suggested Strategy</i> (London: T&T Clark, 2005), p. 186.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stanley K. Stowers, <i>A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles</i> (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1994), p. 199.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A. J. Wallace, R. D. Rusk, <i>Moral Transformation: The Original Christian Paradigm of Salvation</i> (New Zealand: Bridgehead, 2011), pp 120–135.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pope-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Pope_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">Pope, Hugh. "Faith." The Catholic Encyclopedia</a> Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 30 April 2018</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/crisis-of-faith-10962">"The Crisis of Faith"</a>. <i>EWTN Global Catholic Television Network</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2024-09-27</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=EWTN+Global+Catholic+Television+Network&rft.atitle=The+Crisis+of+Faith&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ewtn.com%2Fcatholicism%2Flibrary%2Fcrisis-of-faith-10962&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archspm.org/faith-and-discipleship/catholic-faith/what-is-faith-how-does-it-tie-in-to-what-we-believe-as-catholics/">"What is Faith?", USCCB</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Catechism of the Catholic Church No. 1992</i>. Vatican City-State. <q>Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacrament of faith.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catechism+of+the+Catholic+Church+No.+1992&rft.place=Vatican+City-State&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201706/cardinal-tobin%E2%80%99s-real-life-approach-faith-31052">"Cardinal Tobin’s real-life approach to faith"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/U.S._Catholic_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Catholic (magazine)">U.S. Catholic</a></i>, (Vol. 82, No. 7, pages 18–22), July 2017</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Glossary of terms from the <a href="/wiki/Philokalia" title="Philokalia">Philokalia</a> pg 430 Palmer, G.E.H; Sherrard; Ware, Kallistos (Timothy). The Philokalia, Vol. 4 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-571-19382-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-571-19382-X">0-571-19382-X</a> <i>Faith</i>- not only an individual or theoretical belief in the dogmatic truths of Christianity, but an all-embracing relationship, an attitude of love and trust in God. As such it involves a transformation of man's entire life. Faith is a gift from God, the means whereby we are taken up into the whole theanthropic activity of God in Christ and of man in Christ through which man attains salvation.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lossky" title="Vladimir Lossky">Vladimir Lossky</a> SVS Press, 1997. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-913836-31-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-913836-31-1">0-913836-31-1</a>) James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1991. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-227-67919-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-227-67919-9">0-227-67919-9</a>) pg 21 pg 71</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lossky" title="Vladimir Lossky">Vladimir Lossky</a> SVS Press, 1997. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-913836-31-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-913836-31-1">0-913836-31-1</a>) James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1991. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-227-67919-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-227-67919-9">0-227-67919-9</a>) pg 71</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Eastern_Church_1997._pg_71-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Eastern_Church_1997._pg_71_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, by <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lossky" title="Vladimir Lossky">Vladimir Lossky</a> pg 33 SVS Press, 1997. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-913836-31-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-913836-31-1">0-913836-31-1</a>) James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1991. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-227-67919-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-227-67919-9">0-227-67919-9</a>) pg 71</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Westminster Confession of 1646 AD, Article XIV, section II.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See, for example, Augsburg Confession of 1530 AD, Article IV.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:John%2017:3">John 17:3</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Luke%201:77">Luke 1:77</a>,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Galatians%204:9">Galatians 4:9</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Philippians%203:8">Philippians 3:8</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:1%20Timothy%202:4">1 Timothy 2:4</a> refer to faith in terms of knowledge.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:John%205:46">John 5:46</a> refers to acceptance of the truth of Christ's teaching, while <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:John%203:36">John 3:36</a> notes the rejection of his teaching.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3:16&version=50">John 3:16,36</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Galatians%202:16">Galatians 2:16</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Romans%204:20–25">Romans 4:20–25</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:2%20Timothy%201:12">2 Timothy 1:12</a> speak of trust, confidence, and belief in Christ. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:John%203:18">John 3:18</a> notes belief in the name of Christ, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+1:15&version=50">Mark 1:15</a> notes belief in the gospel.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Engelder-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Engelder_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Engelder, T.E.W., <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/MN41551ucmf_1">Popular Symbolics</a> </cite>. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1934. pp. 54ff, Part XIV. "Sin"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-isbn0-06-065292-6-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-isbn0-06-065292-6_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isbn0-06-065292-6_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLewis,_C._S.2001" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">Lewis, C. S.</a> (2001). <i>Mere Christianity: a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality</i>. <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>: HarperSanFrancisco. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-065292-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-065292-6"><bdi>0-06-065292-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mere+Christianity%3A+a+revised+and+amplified+edition%2C+with+a+new+introduction%2C+of+the+three+books%2C+Broadcast+talks%2C+Christian+behaviour%2C+and+Beyond+personality&rft.place=San+Francisco&rft.pub=HarperSanFrancisco&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-06-065292-6&rft.au=Lewis%2C+C.+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/documents/westminster_conf_of_faith.html">"The Westminster Confession of Faith</a>, 1646</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GREGORY P. SAPAUGH, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.faithalone.org/journal/1994i/J12-94c.htm">"IS FAITH A GIFT? A STUDY OF EPHESIANS 2:8,"</a> Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Volume 7:12, Spring 1994</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMason2001" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/James_O._Mason" title="James O. Mason">Mason, James O.</a> (April 2001), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2001/04/faith-in-jesus-christ?lang=eng">"Faith in Jesus Christ"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ensign_(LDS_magazine)" title="Ensign (LDS magazine)">Ensign</a></i></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ensign&rft.atitle=Faith+in+Jesus+Christ&rft.date=2001-04&rft.aulast=Mason&rft.aufirst=James+O.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.churchofjesuschrist.org%2Fstudy%2Fensign%2F2001%2F04%2Ffaith-in-jesus-christ%3Flang%3Deng&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Church_(Joseph_Smith)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Church (Joseph Smith)">History of the Church</a></i>, 3:379.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1 Thes. 3:10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Lectures_on_Faith" title="Lectures on Faith">Lectures on Faith</a></i>, 69.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John 7:17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSorensen1992" class="citation book cs1">Sorensen, Elaine Shaw (1992). "Seeds of Faith: A Follower's View of Alma 32". In <a href="/wiki/Monte_S._Nyman" title="Monte S. Nyman">Nyman, Monte S.</a>; Tate, Charles D. Jr. (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/book-mormon-alma-testimony-word/8-seeds-faith-followers-view-alma-32"><i>The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word</i></a>. Provo, Utah: <a href="/wiki/Religious_Studies_Center" title="Religious Studies Center">Religious Studies Center</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young_University" title="Brigham Young University">Brigham Young University</a>. pp. 129–39. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88494-841-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-88494-841-2"><bdi>0-88494-841-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Seeds+of+Faith%3A+A+Follower%27s+View+of+Alma+32&rft.btitle=The+Book+of+Mormon%3A+Alma%2C+the+Testimony+of+the+Word&rft.place=Provo%2C+Utah&rft.pages=129-39&rft.pub=Religious+Studies+Center%2C+Brigham+Young+University&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-88494-841-2&rft.aulast=Sorensen&rft.aufirst=Elaine+Shaw&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Frsc.byu.edu%2Farchived%2Fbook-mormon-alma-testimony-word%2F8-seeds-faith-followers-view-alma-32&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faith_in_Christianity&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAquinas1265" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Aquinas, Thomas</a> (1265). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Summa Theologiae/Second Part of the Second Part"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Summa_Theologiae/Second_Part_of_the_Second_Part">"Second Part of the Second Part (Questions 1-7)" </a></span>. <i>Summa Theologica</i>. St. Meinrad, Ind.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Second+Part+of+the+Second+Part+%28Questions+1-7%29&rft.btitle=Summa+Theologica&rft.pub=St.+Meinrad%2C+Ind.&rft.date=1265&rft.aulast=Aquinas&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBerington1830" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Berington" title="Joseph Berington">Berington, Joseph</a> (1830). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:The Faith of Catholics/Section 1#7"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Faith_of_Catholics/Section_1#7">"Faith in Christ: Its Object and Character." </a></span>. <i>The Faith of Catholics: confirmed by Scripture, and attested by the Fathers of the five first centuries of the Church, Volume 1</i>. Benzinger Brothers.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Faith+in+Christ%3A+Its+Object+and+Character.&rft.btitle=The+Faith+of+Catholics%3A+confirmed+by+Scripture%2C+and+attested+by+the+Fathers+of+the+five+first+centuries+of+the+Church%2C+Volume+1&rft.pub=Benzinger+Brothers&rft.date=1830&rft.aulast=Berington&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Reilly1897" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernard_O%27Reilly_(historian)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bernard O'Reilly (historian) (page does not exist)">O'Reilly, Bernard</a> (1897). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Beautiful pearls of Catholic truth/Sayings of Brother Giles, one of the First Disciples of St. Francis of Assisi."><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beautiful_pearls_of_Catholic_truth/Sayings_of_Brother_Giles,_one_of_the_First_Disciples_of_St._Francis_of_Assisi.">"Sayings of Brother Giles, one of the First Disciples of St. Francis of Assisi.: On Faith" </a></span>. <i>Beautiful pearls of Catholic truth</i>. Henry Sphar & Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Sayings+of+Brother+Giles%2C+one+of+the+First+Disciples+of+St.+Francis+of+Assisi.%3A+On+Faith&rft.btitle=Beautiful+pearls+of+Catholic+truth&rft.pub=Henry+Sphar+%26+Co.&rft.date=1897&rft.aulast=O%27Reilly&rft.aufirst=Bernard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPope1909" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Pope, Hugh (1909). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Faith"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Faith">"Faith" </a></span>. In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Faith&rft.btitle=Catholic+Encyclopedia&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Robert+Appleton+Company&rft.date=1909&rft.aulast=Pope&rft.aufirst=Hugh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFaith+in+Christianity" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSorensen1992" class="citation book cs1">Sorensen, Elaine Shaw (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/book-mormon-alma-testimony-word/8-seeds-faith-followers-view-alma-32">"Seeds of Faith: A Follower's View of Alma 32"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Monte_S._Nyman" title="Monte S. Nyman">Nyman, Monte S.</a>; Tate, Charles D. Jr. (eds.). <i>The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word</i>. Provo, Utah: <a href="/wiki/Religious_Studies_Center" title="Religious Studies Center">Religious Studies Center</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young_University" title="Brigham Young University">Brigham Young University</a>. pp. 129–39. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88494-841-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-88494-841-2"><bdi>0-88494-841-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span 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Macomber (1861–1916)</figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:gold;width:1%">Three<br /><a href="/wiki/Theological_virtues" title="Theological virtues">theological virtues</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Faith</a> (<i>Fides</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hope_(virtue)" title="Hope (virtue)">Hope</a> (<i>Spes</i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charity_(Christian_virtue)" title="Charity (Christian virtue)">Love</a> (<i>Caritas</i>)</li></ul> <ul><li>Sources: <a href="/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle" title="Paul the Apostle">Paul the Apostle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1_Corinthians_13" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Corinthians 13">1 Corinthians 13</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:gold;width:1%">Seven lively virtues<br />versus<br /><a 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Absolution" title="Absolution">Absolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoption_(theology)" title="Adoption (theology)">Adoption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assurance_(theology)" title="Assurance (theology)">Assurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atonement_in_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Atonement in Christianity">Atonement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">Baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Effectual_calling" title="Effectual calling">Calling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conditional_preservation_of_the_saints" title="Conditional preservation of the saints">Conditional security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Christianity" title="Conversion to Christianity">Conversion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divinization_(Christian)" title="Divinization (Christian)">Divinization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Election_in_Christianity" title="Election in Christianity">Election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eternal_life_(Christianity)" title="Eternal life (Christianity)">Eternal life</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Extra_Ecclesiam_nulla_salus" title="Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus">extra Ecclesiam nulla salus</a></i></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forgiveness" title="Forgiveness">Forgiveness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glorification" title="Glorification">Glorification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grace_in_Christianity" title="Grace in Christianity">Grace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irresistible_grace" title="Irresistible grace">Irresistible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prevenient_grace" title="Prevenient grace">Prevenient</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imputed_righteousness" title="Imputed righteousness">Imputation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justification_(theology)" title="Justification (theology)">Justification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Means_of_grace" title="Means of grace">Means of grace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monergism" title="Monergism">Monergism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mortification_(theology)" title="Mortification (theology)">Mortification</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ordo_salutis" title="Ordo salutis">Ordo salutis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perseverance_of_the_saints" title="Perseverance of the saints">Perseverance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Predestination" title="Predestination">Predestination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Recapitulation_theory_of_atonement" title="Recapitulation theory of atonement">Recapitulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconciliation_(theology)" title="Reconciliation (theology)">Reconciliation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redemption_in_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Redemption in Christianity">Redemption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regeneration_(theology)" title="Regeneration (theology)">Regeneration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Repentance_in_Christianity" title="Repentance in Christianity">Repentance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_resurrection" title="Universal resurrection">Resurrection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity" title="Salvation in Christianity">Salvation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanctification_in_Christianity" title="Sanctification in Christianity">Sanctification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synergism" title="Synergism">Synergism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)" title="Theosis (Eastern Christian theology)">Theosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_with_Christ" title="Union with Christ">Union with Christ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_worship" title="Christian worship">Worship</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blessing" title="Blessing">Blessing</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hamartiology" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamartiology">Hamartiology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adam#The_New_Testament" title="Adam">Adam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_anthropology" title="Christian anthropology">Anthropology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_man" title="Fall of man">The Fall</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Incurvatus_in_se" title="Incurvatus in se">Incurvatus in se</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occasion_of_sin" title="Occasion of sin">Occasion of sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Original_sin" title="Original sin">Original sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_sin" title="Christian views on sin">Sin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodicy" title="Theodicy">Theodicy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_depravity" title="Total depravity">Total depravity</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology">Ecclesiology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">Sacrament</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confession_(religion)" title="Confession (religion)">Confession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eucharistic_theology" title="Eucharistic theology">Eucharist</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missiology" title="Missiology">Missiology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_polity" title="Ecclesiastical polity">Polity</a> (<a href="/wiki/Congregationalist_polity" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist polity">Congregational</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Episcopal_polity" title="Episcopal polity">Episcopal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_polity" title="Presbyterian polity">Presbyterian</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop">Bishop</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historical_episcopate" title="Historical episcopate">Historical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">Synod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conciliarity" title="Conciliarity">Conciliarity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koinonia" title="Koinonia">Koinonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Full_communion" title="Full communion">Full communion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_discipline" title="Church discipline">Church discipline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shunning" title="Shunning">Shunning</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_eschatology" title="Christian eschatology">Eschatology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Historicism_(Christianity)" title="Historicism (Christianity)">Historicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idealism_(Christian_eschatology)" title="Idealism (Christian eschatology)">Idealism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dispensationalism" title="Dispensationalism">Dispensationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futurism_(Christianity)" title="Futurism (Christianity)">Futurism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preterism" title="Preterism">Preterism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millenarianism" title="Millenarianism">Millenarianism</a> (<a href="/wiki/Premillennialism" title="Premillennialism">Pre-</a> / <a href="/wiki/Postmillennialism" title="Postmillennialism">Post-</a> / <a href="/wiki/Amillennialism" title="Amillennialism">A-millennialism</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church" title="Seventh-day Adventist Church">Adventism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antichrist" title="Antichrist">Antichrist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apocalypse" title="Apocalypse">Apocalypse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apocalypticism" title="Apocalypticism">Apocalypticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">Covenant</a> / <a href="/wiki/New_Covenant_theology" title="New Covenant theology">New Covenant theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">End times</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_Hell" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian views on Hell">Hell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Last_Judgment" title="Last Judgment">Last Judgment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millennialism" title="Millennialism">Millennialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jerusalem" title="New Jerusalem">New Jerusalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapture" title="Rapture">Rapture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Coming" title="Second Coming">Second Coming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_mortalism" title="Christian mortalism">Soul sleep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Tribulation" title="Great Tribulation">Tribulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Heaven" title="War in Heaven">War in Heaven</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Historical_theology" title="Historical theology">Historical</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Christian_theology" title="History of Christian theology">History of Christian theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodoxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Calvinist%E2%80%93Arminian_debate" title="History of the Calvinist–Arminian debate">Calvinist–Arminian debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Age">Apostolic Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Development_of_the_New_Testament_canon" title="Development of the New Testament canon">Canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patristics" title="Patristics">Patristics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesaropapism" title="Caesaropapism">Caesaropapism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semipelagianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Semipelagianism">Semipelagianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Iconoclasm" title="Byzantine Iconoclasm">Iconoclasm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scholasticism" title="Scholasticism">Scholasticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomism" title="Thomism">Thomism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conciliarism" title="Conciliarism">Conciliarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_humanism" title="Renaissance humanism">Renaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counter-Reformation" title="Counter-Reformation">Counter-Reformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietism" title="Pietism">Pietism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Awakening" title="Great Awakening">Great Awakenings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Practical_theology" title="Practical theology">Practical</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_apologetics" title="Christian apologetics">Apologetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_the_Old_Covenant" title="Christian views on the Old Covenant">Biblical law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_studies" title="Religious studies">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_ethics" title="Christian ethics">Ethics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homiletics" title="Homiletics">Homiletics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liturgics" title="Liturgics">Liturgics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missiology" title="Missiology">Missiology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethics_in_religion" title="Ethics in religion">Moral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pastoral_theology" title="Pastoral theology">Pastoral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">Polemics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_theology" title="Political theology">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_theology" title="Public theology">Public</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Template:Christian_theology_by_tradition" title="Template:Christian theology by tradition">By tradition</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Catholic_Church" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_theology" title="Catholic theology">Catholic Church</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Absolution" title="Absolution">Absolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">Apostolic succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary" title="Assumption of Mary">Assumption of Mary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_dogmatic_theology" title="Catholic dogmatic theology">Dogmatic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_humanism" title="Christian humanism">Christian humanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditionalist_Catholicism" title="Traditionalist Catholicism">Traditionalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_ecumenical_councils" title="Catholic ecumenical councils">Ecumenical Councils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filioque" title="Filioque">Filioque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immaculate_Conception" title="Immaculate Conception">Immaculate Conception</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indulgence" title="Indulgence">Indulgences</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infant_baptism" title="Infant baptism">Infant baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josephology" title="Josephology">Josephology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_liturgy" title="Catholic liturgy">Liturgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariology_of_the_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariology of the Catholic Church">Mariology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Mass in the Catholic Church">Mass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modernism_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Modernism in the Catholic Church">Modernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">Natural law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_infallibility" title="Papal infallibility">Papal infallibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priesthood_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Priesthood in the Catholic Church">Priesthood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purgatory" title="Purgatory">Purgatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quartodecimanism" title="Quartodecimanism">Quartodecimanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the_Eucharist" title="Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist">Real presence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacerdotalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacerdotalism">Sacerdotalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrament" title="Sacrament">Sacrament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">Sainthood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scotism" title="Scotism">Scotism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomism" title="Thomism">Thomism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transubstantiation" title="Transubstantiation">Transubstantiation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultramontanism" title="Ultramontanism">Ultramontanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veneration#Roman_Catholic,_Orthodox" title="Veneration">Veneration</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Eastern_Orthodox_Church" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_theology" title="Eastern Orthodox theology">Eastern Orthodox Church</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apophatic_theology" title="Apophatic theology">Apophatic theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cataphatic_theology" title="Cataphatic theology">Cataphatic theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_(religion)" title="Economy (religion)">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essence%E2%80%93energies_distinction" title="Essence–energies distinction">Essence–energies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnomic_will" title="Gnomic will">Gnomic will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metousiosis" title="Metousiosis">Metousiosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phronema" title="Phronema">Phronema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phyletism" title="Phyletism">Phyletism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proskynesis" title="Proskynesis">Proskynesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobornost" title="Sobornost">Sobornost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphonia_(theology)" title="Symphonia (theology)">Symphonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tabor_Light" title="Tabor Light">Tabor Light</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Theoria">Theoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theosis_(Eastern_Christian_theology)" title="Theosis (Eastern Christian theology)">Theosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theotokos" title="Theotokos">Theotokos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Oriental_Orthodoxy" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental Orthodoxy</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miaphysitism" title="Miaphysitism">Miaphysitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monophysitism" title="Monophysitism">Monophysitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monoenergism" title="Monoenergism">Monoenergism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monothelitism" title="Monothelitism">Monothelitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aphthartodocetae" title="Aphthartodocetae">Aphthartodocetism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-size: 90%;"><div id="Protestantism" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Protestant_theologian" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant theologian">Protestantism</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Protestant_theology" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant theology">General</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adiaphora#Adiaphora_in_Christianity" title="Adiaphora">Adiaphora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_views_on_the_Old_Covenant" title="Christian views on the Old Covenant">Christian views on the Old Covenant</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Covenant_theology" title="Covenant theology">Covenant theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dispensationalism" title="Dispensationalism">Dispensationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supersessionism" title="Supersessionism">Supersessionism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelicalism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_theology" title="Evangelical theology">Evangelical theology</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_solae" title="Five solae">Five <i>solae</i></a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Sola_fide" title="Sola fide">Sola fide</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sola_gratia" title="Sola gratia">Sola gratia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sola_scriptura" title="Sola scriptura">Sola scriptura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Soli_Deo_gloria" title="Soli Deo gloria">Soli Deo gloria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Solus_Christus" title="Solus Christus">Solus Christus</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism" title="Christian fundamentalism">Fundamentalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestant_ecclesiology" title="Protestant ecclesiology">Protestant ecclesiology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Priesthood_of_all_believers" title="Priesthood of all believers">Priesthood of all believers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_covenant" title="Church covenant">Church covenant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salvation_in_Christianity#Protestantism" title="Salvation in Christianity">Protestant Soteriology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assurance_(theology)" title="Assurance (theology)">Assurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conditional_election" title="Conditional election">Conditional election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conditional_preservation_of_the_saints" title="Conditional preservation of the saints">Conditional preservation of the saints</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prevenient_grace" title="Prevenient grace">Prevenient grace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Total_depravity" title="Total depravity">Total depravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unlimited_atonement" title="Unlimited atonement">Unlimited atonement</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anglican_doctrine" title="Anglican doctrine">Anglican</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Catholicism" title="Anglo-Catholicism">Anglo-Catholicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branch_theory" title="Branch theory">Branch theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broad_church" title="Broad church">Broad church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_churchmanship" title="Central churchmanship">Center church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_church" title="High church">High church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Low_church" title="Low church">Low church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Believer%27s_baptism" title="Believer's baptism">Believer's baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immersion_baptism" title="Immersion baptism">Immersion baptism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptists_in_the_history_of_separation_of_church_and_state" title="Baptists in the history of separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Theology_of_Martin_Luther" title="Theology of Martin Luther">Lutheran</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit" title="Baptism with the Holy Spirit">Baptism with the Holy Spirit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith_healing" title="Faith healing">Faith healing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossolalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Glossolalia">Glossolalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosperity_theology" title="Prosperity theology">Prosperity theology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Reformed <span class="nobold">(Calvinist)</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_reconstructionism" title="Christian reconstructionism">Christian reconstructionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_points_of_Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Five points of Calvinism">TULIP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_grace_theology" title="Free grace theology">Free Grace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lordship_salvation_controversy" title="Lordship salvation controversy">Lordship salvation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Predestination_in_Calvinism" title="Predestination in Calvinism">Predestination</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_theology" title="Wesleyan theology">Wesleyan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_perfection" title="Christian perfection">Christian perfection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imparted_righteousness" title="Imparted 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