Faith Emotion

A Faith Emotion is a trust emotion that enables belief confidence through emotional responses (supporting religious experiences and spiritual connections).

• Context:
  • It can typically generate Personal Conviction through emotional trust.
  • It can typically sustain Belief System through emotional resonance.
  • It can typically reinforce Religious Experience through emotional bonding.
  • It can typically support Spiritual Connection through emotional openness.
  • It can typically enable Divine Relationship through emotional devotion.
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  • It can often provide Mental Comfort through emotional security.
  • It can often facilitate Social Bonding through shared beliefs.
  • It can often maintain Cultural Identity through traditional practices.
  • It can often inspire Moral Behavior through emotional guidance.
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  • It can range from being a Rational Faith to being a Pure Faith, depending on its evidence basis.
  • It can range from being a Personal Faith to being a Communal Faith, depending on its social context.
  • It can range from being a Simple Faith to being a Complex Faith, depending on its theological depth.
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• Examples:
  • Religious Faiths, such as:
    • Monotheistic Faiths, which support divine unity.
    • Polytheistic Faiths, which embrace divine plurality.
  • Spiritual Faiths, such as:
    • Mystical Faiths, which seek direct experience.
    • Contemplative Faiths, which pursue inner wisdom.
  • Philosophical Faiths, such as:
    • Rational Faiths, which integrate reason and belief.
    • Experiential Faiths, which emphasize personal revelation.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Blind Trust, which lacks conscious reflection.
  • Rational Certainty, which requires empirical proof.
  • Emotional Attachment, which focuses on temporal bonding.
• See: Natural Theology, Person, Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Religion, Belief, God, Webster's Dictionary, Justification (Epistemology), Evidence, Religious Skepticism, Thomas Aquinas.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/faith Retrieved:2024-12-22.
  • Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, faith is "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". According to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, faith has multiple definitions, including "something that is believed especially with strong conviction", "complete trust", "belief and trust in and loyalty to God", as well as "a firm belief in something for which there is no proof". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, or evidence, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence. In the Roman world, 'faith' (Latin: ) was understood without particular association with gods or beliefs. Instead, it was understood as a paradoxical set of reciprocal ideas: voluntary will and voluntary restraint in the sense of father over family or host over guest, whereby one party willfully surrenders to a party who could harm but chooses not to, thereby entrusting or confiding in them. According to Thomas Aquinas, faith is "an act of the intellect assenting to the truth at the command of the will". Religion has a long tradition, since the ancient world, of analyzing divine questions using common human experiences such as sensation, reason, science, and history that do not rely on revelation—called Natural theology.

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