Faith & Belief

I'm loving this from Bill Dahl's review of The Future of Faith, by Harvey Cox:

Cox makes an important distinction between faith and beliefs throughout the book while weaving the weight of history into support his positions. According to Cox, Faith is about deep-seated confidence – vital for the way we live – it is primordial – hope and assurance that translates into the way we live our lives — each and every day (pp.3-5). Belief, according to Cox, is more like opinion – We can believe something to be true without it making much difference to us. Creeds are clusters of beliefs. Christianity is the story of a people of faith who sometimes cobbled together creeds out of beliefs. It is also the history of equally faithful people who questioned, altered and discarded those same creeds” (pp.3-5).

It resonates with my own thoughts on being a believer versus an apprentice.

(BTW, if you haven't dropped by Bill's blog for a while he has some stellar content. Reviews, interviews, etc.)

Comments

[Jason Coker]

First time here Mike but I really resonate with the stuff you're writing. Apprenticeship is a word I've been finding much traction with lately.

Keep it up!

[Bill Dahl]

Mike:

Thank you for the kind "shout out"

Best

Bill