problem of faith

Kierkegaard used this example to focus attention on the problem of faith in general.

In his view, skeptical religion therefore offers a solution to the problem of faith and reason.

For them, the place where the possibilities, meaning and problems of faith intersect is closer to home.

Any approach that makes doubt a problem of faith rather than a problem of knowledge is wrong.

'She told me that she had problems of faith.

The same problem of faith that sees God as too small shows up in the attitudes of those who approached Jesus for help.

"I must admit that I sometimes feel like a priest, the way that people come to me with problems of faith.

Moreover, Luther entered into correspondence with him, discussing with him the most important problems of faith.

A reviewer from the Library Journal said that Children of God "examines the problem of faith under fire with insight and clarity".

In each country the Catholic bishops gather in the Bishops' conference to solve common problems of faith and the local Catholic Church.

Where Believers May Doubt: or Studies in Biblical Inspiration and Other Problems of Faith.

His mind went cartwheeling off through the night, never following a train of thought, but moving from one concept to another in free association, revolving endlessly around and around the problem of faith and reality.

In America the problems of faith in God were becoming acute in a universe of Darwinism and decreasing availability of energy, with materialism perceived as leading to the collapse of civilization.

Bishops and other church leaders relied too heavily on psychiatrists, psychologists, and lawyers in dealing with a problem that, while it undoubtedly has psychological causes and legal implications, is at its heart a problem of faith and morality.

I want to emphasise yet again that we must do everything possible for Europe to recover from the economic crisis, because it is not only a problem faced by millions of families, but it is also a problem of faith in our future.

The outcome of this conflict was settled from the start, and already in the early 19th century the center of gravity in European life had shifted from problems of faith to those of class, industrialization, urbanization, nationalism and colonialism.

Older books surveying the theology of the nineteenth century, such as John Oman's The Problem of Faith and Freedom (1906), commonly applied it to extreme radicals, and spoke of Ritschl as neither 'liberal' nor 'orthodox'but 'mediating'.

Moreover, he entered into correspondence with Luther, discussing with him the most important problems of faith, and in 1524 he met him personally during the negotiations concerning his brother Albert's secularization of the Teutonic Order's state of Prussia into the secular Duchy of Prussia.

Great poetry, from Herbert and Donne on through Hopkins to Heaney, has often lent itself to tackling problems of faith, but its metaphors and powers of condensation are suited to the weightiness of the theme in a way that the more sustained and casual locutions of fiction are not.