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Chapter one: faith, chapter two: revelation, chapter three: relationship, faith and its meaning, faith and its role in the life of believers.

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Exploring The Nexus: Faith and Revelation

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What is revelation, the dance between faith and revelation, broader implications, the challenges, the big picture.

• Dawkins, R. (2006). The God Delusion.
• Eliade, M. (1959). The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.
• Tillich, P. (1957). Dynamics of Faith.
• Kierkegaard, S. (1843). Fear and Trembling.
• Smith, H. (1991). The World's Religions.

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If it is true, as my argument has suggested, not only of systems of religious belief, but also of secular world-views and moral and political theories that they require and admit of rational justification, but are not, and ought not to be, accepted by their adherents in a merely tentative and provisional manner, the complaint that, by assimilating the religious case to these others, I have overlooked the committed character of religious belief, loses much of its force. No doubt the character of religious faith is in important respects different, but the resemblances should not be neglected.

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Mitchell, B. (1973). Faith and Revelation. In: The Justification of Religious Belief. Philosophy of Religion Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00663-2_9

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