The Phenomenon of Religious Faith: Theological, Philosophical and Religious Studies Interpretations

Sviatoslav Kyiak,Daryna Martsinovska

doi:10.15330/jpnu.1.4.136-143

Abstract

The article deals with the phenomenon of faith addressed from the perspective oftheology, philosophy and religious studies. The central role of faith in the Christian religion ishighlighted, as well as the specifics of the phenomenon in the 20th – early 21st century Catholicism.The general theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of religious faith in the works by nationaland world philosophers, theologians and religious studies scholars are reviewed; the paperhighlights the principles of their theories based on rational interpretation of the premises of faith,Christian virtues, which underlie moral, ethnic and social norms in particular

Highlights

According to Stephen Evans, an outstanding American Christian philosopher, a widely held view in theology, religious studies and philosophy is that the general framework of faith is based on personal preference and trust in something, which makes us reflect on the object of our analysis; reflection itself facilitates the building up of trust
The Phenomenon of Religious Faith< 137 the questions which defeat its own means of cognition’; in terms of anthropology, this problem was addressed by St
The difference in the ways theology, religious studies and philosophy approach the religious faith phenomenon is rooted in their specific interpretations of the basic feature of religious faith, the concept of ‘the sacred’, ‘the innermost’, or ‘hierophany’, which has been proved by a number of researches [2, p. 59–60; 4, p. 465; 12, p. 92–95; 13, p. 40–46; 19, p. 462; 25, p. 22–23]

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Introduction

According to Stephen Evans, an outstanding American Christian philosopher, a widely held view in theology, religious studies and philosophy is that the general framework of faith is based on personal preference and trust in something, which makes us reflect on the object of our analysis; reflection itself facilitates the building up of trust. The phenomenon of religious faith viewed from the perspectives of theology, theological-religious studies and philosophy is a major methodological scientific problem.

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