tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9108666310096984930.post6155049546017273234..comments2023-11-02T03:51:02.094-07:00Comments on Banninated: It's called "Fideism", Phil...Touchstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03733806892886921425noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9108666310096984930.post-55857434639997294232007-12-21T20:56:00.000-08:002007-12-21T20:56:00.000-08:00rM,Maybe fideism is overloaded as a term? "Fideism...rM,<BR/><BR/>Maybe fideism is overloaded as a term? "Fideism" means to me the primacy of faith or mystical revelation over reason. I think if you check around that's a pretty common take on the term. <BR/><BR/>I have a couple of Calvinist friends who have recommended MacArthur's "Truth War", so I read it and we discussed it. What a spectacle. They end up getting frustrated (as fideists, that's what happens), and one -- a fan of the PyroManiacs -- says I should take it up with Phil (with a wink, he knows I've been banned there). <BR/><BR/>But they talk in their echo chamber, congratulating themselves on how feeble the epistemic foundations of their theological enemies are, which is a spectacular case of the "glass house" hypocrisy. In just a few questions, you can turn them into presuppositionalists -- anti-epistemologists -- and the whole gig is up; they have nothing to appeal to but "I believe because I believe", or some supernatural variation thereof. <BR/><BR/>And these are the folks cluck-clucking about post-modernism? <BR/><BR/>Tell you what, tell me what the "reasoning" part of the Calvinist core epistemology is, and we can look at my use of "fideism". There *are* Calvinists who appeal to an evidentialist argument, and I'd agree, that is not a strictly fideist orientation. But these cats are not that. Pure fideists, at the core, just ask 'em. <BR/><BR/>Are you reading this, Jim?<BR/><BR/>-TSTouchstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733806892886921425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9108666310096984930.post-16686603511931270692007-12-21T20:12:00.000-08:002007-12-21T20:12:00.000-08:00uh, I don't think Calvinism is fideism, d00d. I do...uh, I don't think Calvinism is fideism, d00d. I don't know why you even bother to read those blogs, the way you post here (some of it here is good). Fideism to me means something like 'blind faith'. No reason to believe, just believe anyway.point Calvinism has the Bible to to, right? I haven't read that blog, but what do you think you are going to get for response from the posters there???<BR/><BR/>Actually, reading a few of the comments, maybe some of them are fideists.<BR/><BR/>rMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com