Faith

Sticky Faith is a book of hope and a book of practicality. It begins by bringing to the light the issue that Christian teens all face when they go off to college: will their faith stick or will they leave it in the past as simply a high school hobby. The book begins with something they like to call, “the not-so-sticky-faith reality.” It lays the foundation for the rest of the book by presenting all of the facts and statistics about the faith in teens in high school verses once they get to and…

Kierkegaard’s Leap of Faith. Soren Kierkegaard definitely has opened my eyes to what it truly means to take a “leap of faith.” This is one of the hardest things anyone will ever do in their life, and I can personally testify to that. According to Kierkegaard a leap of faith requires a commitment to oneself that lacks logic, proof, and reason. Studying Kierkegaard’s concept on faith showed me that there is a definite difference between believing in something and having faith in something.…

Faith and Belief Faith and belief, often associated in the same realm of ideas, are in actuality very different concepts. On dictionary.com, belief is defined as, “confidence; faith; trust” while faith is defined as, “belief that is not based on proof.” Ironically, the dictionary is troubled to define one word without the other. However, upon further investigation, faith and belief contrast in distinct ways. Faith is your whole person and infinite ultimate concern that is improvable while belief…

Faith, reason, and imagination are three words that on the surface have a different meaning than they do when you delve deeper in thought and begin to look at them philosophically. Before this class, I had not spent much time thinking on the connotative meaning of these three words, rather I merely looked at the denotative meaning. Through this class, I have been exposed to the writing of Augustine, Kant, James, and Kafka, among others, who have influenced my personal definitions of faith,…

Article Critique The article, “Adolescent Faith Development: Through a Nurse’s Lens, by Janice Haley explores and discusses faith development among adolescents as they mature from childhood to adulthood. It differs from other discussions in that it explores the issue of adolescents’ faith development from a holistic perspective. In order to achieve her objective, the author used Brueggemann’s theoretical framework which entails human faith experiences. The author used this framework as a…

Faith, from the Miriam Webster dictionary is defined as, “A strong belief or trust in something.” And Biblically, which is stated in Hebrews 11:1, faith is described as the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. In the movie The Wizard of Oz we are witness to a lot of examples of faith. In the movie, the main character, Dorothy, wishes she could just leave Kansas and experience new and exciting things. Before she’s going to leave, she visits a professor in her town…

Night Eliezer’s Faith In the beginning of the book, Night, Eliezer states that he believes “profoundly” (in god/his religion). Later in Night, despite his original feelings, he seems to have a much different perspective on his faith. The indications that Eliezer, in time, will start to lose his grasp on his faith, such as the things he starts to say, will soon be revealed. The first quote to talk about is “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” said in chapter 1,…

Faith can be an incredibly difficult thing to obtain. Some people can make religion look easy and find an everlasting peace in God, while others cannot experience this relationship. Looking at the Catholic background, there are countless pieces of evidence and scholarly people that back the stories of the bible as true. Even when looking at the available body of information that supports Catholicism, the entire belief resides on a foundation of faith. All the dogmas, doctrines, and disciplines…

Anderson and Girgis collectively argue on behalf of the opposing side of the spectrum, with certain points of commonality. In “A Common Faith” Dewey critically assesses the role of religion in government. Further, he proposes that government…

Faith can be defined as believing in something without any proof. Is it logical that humans believe in accepting things without any evidence it exists? That appears to be a vital attribute to religion because there’s no stone cold proof in crediting its existence. So why is it that people believe in God? Most would say it’s evident it benefits them in their afterlife and their building of moral character. However, is it really true that being religious makes somebody a moral person, or is it…