@inbook{294f1fdadfb6458584613a7b7b0fcf8b,
title = "Faith",
abstract = "Faith (Tro--noun; tro--verb, adjective) From the Old Norse tr{\'u} (assurance, belief), Old English derived truwa (agreement) and treow (fidelity, truth), and subsequently Middle English derived trowthe (troth) and Modern English {"}true{"} and {"}trust.{"} All these meanings resonate in the Danish Tro, which is usually translated as {"}belief{"} or {"}faith.{"} Its lexical meanings include: (1) the belief that a person is completely to be relied upon; (2) the conviction that a person will fulfill one's expectations; (3) conviction of truth or correctness about something; (4) subjective certainty; (5) a religious conviction about supernatural phenomena; (6) creed or faith. Kierkegaard draws several distinctions among his uses of Tro: (1) between epistemological belief and knowledge; (2) between faith in another human being and faith in God; (3) between epistemological belief {"}in the ordinary sense{"} and religious faith {"}in the eminent sense{"}; (4) between immediate religious faith, which is unreflective and undialectical, and religious faith as a higher immediacy or {"}spontaneity after reflection{"}; and (5) between immanent religious faith and Christian paradoxical faith.",
keywords = "Religion and Religious Studies, Philosophy of Religion",
author = "William McDonald",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781472434326",
series = "Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources",
publisher = "Ashgate Publishing",
number = "15",
pages = "67--72",
editor = "\{M Emmanuel\}, Steven and William McDonald and Jon Stewart",
booktitle = "Kierkegaard's Concepts - Tome III: Envy to Incognito",
edition = "1",
}