The Moral and Evidential Requirements of Faith

Malcolm, Finlay

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“…That faith has the same rationality conditions as trust might strike some as odd -for surely faith goes beyond your evidence even more than trust does (for discussion see Kvanvig [2018, 9-10]; Malcolm [2020]). Supposing that there is something to this intuition, my view can account for it.…”

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Rational Faith: How Faith Construed as Trust Does, and Does Not, Go Beyond Our Evidence

Dormandy

2023

The Monist

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I argue that faith is a type of trust. It is also part of a relationship in which both parties are called on to be faithful, where faithfulness is a type of trustworthiness. What distinguishes faith relationships from trust relationships is that both parties value the faith relationship intrinsically. I discuss how faith on this account can, and cannot, be rational when it goes beyond a person’s evidence. It turns out that faith has the same rationality conditions as trust, differing from it only in the cases that fix our intuitions.

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Rational Faith: How Faith Construed as Trust Does, and Does Not, Go Beyond Our Evidence

Dormandy

2023

The Monist

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“…Nevertheless, it may be insisted that FTG requires one to ‘go beyond the evidence’ in some sense (see Malcolm (forthcoming) ). The reason for this is because at the stage of TGS, it is unlikely that anyone could acquire the relevant evidence to make such a move epistemically justifiable.…”

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Testimony, faith, and humility

Malcolm

2020

Rel. Stud.

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It is sometimes claimed that faith is a virtue. To what extent faith is a virtue depends on what faith is. One construal of faith, which has been popular in both recent and historical work on faith, is that faith is a matter of taking oneself to have been spoken to by God and of trusting this purported divine testimony. In this article, I argue that when faith is understood in this way, for faith to be virtuous then it must be accompanied by intellectual humility. I defend this view by showing how someone ought to respond to purported divine testimony if her faith is to be intellectually humble, and how, if it fails in this respect, it will instead be accompanied by the vices of either servility or arrogance.

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“…To the best of our knowledge, the expression grit, and the psychological literature associated with it(Duckworth et al 2007), was first connected with the resilience of faith in a workshop presentation byMalcolm (2017). The first published work to make the connection was Matheson (2018).…”

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True Grit and the Positivity of Faith

Malcolm

Scott

2021

EuJAP

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Most contemporary accounts of the nature of faith explicitly defend what we call ‘the positivity theory of faith’ – the theory that faith must be accompanied by a favourable evaluative belief, or a desire towards the object of faith. This paper examines the different varieties of the positivity theory and the arguments used to support it. Whilst initially plausible, we find that the theory faces numerous problematic counterexamples, and show that weaker versions of the positivity theory are ultimately implausible. We discuss a distinct property of faith that we call ‘true grit’, such that faith requires one to be resilient toward the evidential, practical, and psychological challenges that it faces. We show how true grit is necessary for faith, and provides a simpler and less problematic explanation of the evidence used to support the positivity theory.

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The Moral and Evidential Requirements of Faith

Cited by 5 publications

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Rational Faith: How Faith Construed as Trust Does, and Does Not, Go Beyond Our Evidence

Rational Faith: How Faith Construed as Trust Does, and Does Not, Go Beyond Our Evidence

Testimony, faith, and humility

True Grit and the Positivity of Faith

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