Abstract
Abstract
In the Christian tradition, it is standardly noted that it is by faith we are saved, and faith is not only central to the story of salvation, but a virtue as well. These two aspects raise the central problematics for a Christian understanding of faith. First, what is the relation between faith, understood generically, and the kind of faith that saves? Second, what is the relationship between this prudential feature of faith and its moral status as a virtue? An adequate Christian conception of faith must be able to account for how saving faith is really a kind of faith, and not something akin to a decoy duck, and must also do so in a way that allows a path to explaining the importance of faith in a way that doesn’t reduce its significance to mere prudential value.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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