Definition of "fideism" [fideism]

• Reliance on faith alone rather than scientific reasoning or philosophy in questions of religion. (noun)

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• "In recent years, a small number of philosophers of religion has embraced the term fideism and sought to reclaim its non-pejorative use."
• "In a powerful critique of the theological turn in French phenomenology, for example in the work of Jean-Luc Marion, Meillassoux shows how the flip side of correlationism is fideism, that is, the rather vague discourse on the numinous that one finds in many followers of Heidegger, but also - it should be added - in Wittgenstein's curious remarks about the mystical towards the end of the Tractatus."
• "Alvin Plantinga defines "fideism" as "the exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone, accompanied by a consequent disparagement of reason and utilized especially in the pursuit of philosophical or religious truth.""