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Definition of Fideists
1. fideist [n] - See also: fideist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fideists
Literary usage of Fideists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"For some fideists, human reason cannot of itself reach certitude in regard to
any truth whatever; ... These are sometimes called moderate fideists, for, ..."
2. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"... by the sceptic Schulze (1761-1833), by the eclectic Herder (1744-1803), and
by the fideists, Hamann (1730-1788) and Jacobi (1743-1819). ..."
3. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a widespread disin-
1 MERCIER describes as fideists only those who propound as the ultimate ..."
4. French Prophets of Yesterday: A Study of Religious Thought Under the Second by Albert Léon Guérard (1913)
"For Gratry believed in Reason, and defended its claims right and left, against
the fideists like ..."
5. Through Scylla and Charybdis: Or, The Old Theology and the New by George Tyrrell (1907)
"... all the Fathers and Doctors of the Church are " fideists," and I am at a loss
how to classify ML otherwise than as an " intellectualist. ..."
6. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1913)
"While he does not agree with the fideists that these should determine the object
of faith, nevertheless Apologetics should consider them, since in certain ..."
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