Beginning in the 19th century, Chinese intellectuals' faith in the ability of Confucian culture to withstand the impact of the West became gradually eroded.
Nonfiction books almost never get such scrutiny, however, so notes are a crucial mark of intellectual good faith.
Mr. Hitchens was not the only embattled British-born intellectual whose faith in articulacy caught the public eye this summer.
Like Ms. Watson's Bess McNeal in "Breaking the Waves," Selma is sacrificed on the altar of intellectual bad faith.
She is a left-of-center French intellectual with faith in redistribution, and she subscribes to the optimistic notion (which, perhaps, runs ahead of firm data) that tomorrow might turn out better than today.
Professor, Public Intellectual, & Faith Leader.
The hero of "My Mother's Smile," shown at the New York Film Festival last year, was a left-wing, secular intellectual whose youthful faith in human progress withered into cynicism and solipsism after the future he had had once believed in failed to materialize.
So even when dealing with as sensitive an area as faith, "intellectual humility toward religion may be an effective way to help repair damaged relationships when such conflict inevitably occurs," the University of North Texas study concluded.
Wittgenstein, Hijab now reflects, destroyed his intellectual foundations, his religious faith and his powers of abstract thought.
Disdaining formal education and a clerical intelligentsia, Friends, not surprisingly, often failed theologically (that is, could not solve some of the intellectual problems of their faith).
The response to the external challenge of rival religions and philosophical perspectives is termed apologetics—i.e., the intellectual defense of the faith.
