Dale JacquetteCorresponding author

Faith as a Mustard Seed

Article
17/2 - Fall 2012, pages 140-173
Date of online publication: 07 août 2015
Date of publication: 30 décembre 2012

Abstract

An essentialist analysis of the concept of faith as unconditional patience is now further elaborated in Part Two. The way has been prepared in Part One where multiple supposedly disjoined senses and models of faith are introduced in an anti-essentialist family resemblance approach to understanding the nature of faith. We critically examine Pascal’s wager in relation to matters of religious faith, and positivist meaningfulness requirements that seem to conflict especially with epistemically ungrounded belief, the power of faith, and the metaphorical size of mustard seeds. The inquiry concludes with a synthesis of five supposedly distinct senses of faith under the single essentialist umbrella of unconditional patience in a positive future.

Cite this article

Jacquette, Dale. "Faith as a Mustard Seed." Forum Philosophicum 17, no. 2 (2012): 141–73. doi:10.35765/forphil.2012.1702.11.