Saturday, 6 October 2018

Trusting God as an Element of Faith & Discipleship

Trust is an important element of faith, but faith cannot be reduced to it. It is the constant Protestant reductionism and either/or mentality that we object to. See: The Catholic Encyclopedia: “Faith”. Excerpt: In the New Testament the meanings “to believe” and “belief”, for pisteon and pistis, come to the fore; in Christ’s speech, pistis frequently means “trust”, but also “belief” (cf. Matthew […]

from
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2018/10/trusting-god-as-an-element-of-faith-discipleship.html

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