| 单词 | faith ladder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfaith ladder faith ladder n. a model of a step-by-step process by which an individual comes to (religious) faith.The faith ladder is particularly associated with William James (1842-1910) whose description of the stages by which a person assents to faith was published posthumously in 1911. ΚΠ 1889 Presbyterian Q. Apr. 227 They serve and worship the same God, but their theoretical faith-ladder is very differently constructed. a1910 W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) App. 224 The following steps may be called the ‘faith ladder’: 1. There is nothing absurd in a certain view of the world being true, nothing self-contradictory; 2. It might have been true under certain conditions; 3. It may be true, even now; 4. It is fit to be true; 5. It ought to be true; 6. It must be true; 7. It shall be true, at any rate true for me. 2008 M. Sullivan Windows into Light 111 We don't have to climb another rung on the faith ladder. < as lemmas |
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