He explains that what he and others are trying to do is to model faith in action: "We are not just praying -- we being prayer in the streets.
The viewer may commiserate with the sufferer's pain and, in the case of the Christian saints, feel admonished or inspired by model faith and fortitude but these are destinies beyond deploring or contesting.
The viewer may commiserate with the sufferer's pain — and, in the case of the Christian saints, feel admonished or inspired by model faith and fortitude — but these are destinies beyond deploring or contesting.
For, on this model faith will also have an affective component that includes a welcoming of the knowledge received.
Examples of doxastic venture models: Kierkegaard and Tillich On the doxastic venture model, faith involves full commitment, in the face of the recognition that this is not 'objectively' justified on the evidence.
On both the 'special knowledge' and the 'belief' models, faith is intrinsically linked to theological content indeed to orthodox theological content, specifiable as one unified set of doctrines conveyed to receptive human minds by the operation of divine grace.
Luther Seminary in St . Paul Minn., consistently prepares students to lead model faith communities that are vibrant and life-giving.
Plantinga's work has effectively displayed what these two Christian thinkers have in common, and he thus aptly names his own model of faith the 'A/C model' (Plantinga 2000, 168 86).
Many pieces of the puzzle about what causes a disease such as asthma are still missing, and modeling requires leaps of faith.
The epistemology of the 'special knowledge' model The 'special knowledge' model of faith generates an epistemology under which, although ordinary cognitive faculties and sources of evidence do not yield certain knowledge of theistic truths, there is a 'higher' cognitive faculty that neatly makes up the deficit.
