Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The confusion of faith with belief

The most ordinary misinterpretation of faith is to consider it an act of knowledge that has a low degree of evidence.… If this is meant, one is speaking of belief rather than of faith.… Almost all the struggles between faith and knowledge are rooted in the wrong understanding of faith as a type of knowledge which has a low degree of evidence but is supported by religious authority. One of the worst errors of theology and popular religion is to make statements which intentionally or unintentionally contradict the structure of reality. Such an attitude is an expression not of faith but of the confusion of faith with belief.
~ Paul Tillich

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