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	Crisis of faith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crisis of faith is a term commonly applied to periods of intense doubt and internal conflict about one's preconceived beliefs or life decisions.
		Similarly many freethinkers derive happiness from being able to decide philisophical and moral issues for themselves.
		The concept of a crisis of faith is most commonly applied to religious beliefs, since faith is a fundamental tenet of many religions and the gravity of religious decisions is perceived by many to be great enough to aptly describe a period of extreme doubt as a "crisis".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crisis_of_faith (207 words)

	Faith In Crisis
		Faith, biblically understood, can be broken into three parts: knowledge and belief of content, trust in that content, and a commitment of one's life to that belief.
		Faith, as we have seen, is far more than intellectual assent to an abstract set of doctrines - though it is not less than that.
		Faith, biblically understood, "is a 'wedding ring,' …pointing to mutual commitment and union between Christ and the believer.
	www.gracesermons.com /hisbygrace/crisis.html (4473 words)

	Crisis of Faith
		Faith had never thought much of vunerability, and now vunerability was overjoyed at the chance to hold full dominion over her face.
		Faith sat down gingerly on the edge of her bed, keeping her vision trained on the outfit, as if it was going to jump up and bite at her or something.
		Faith attacked a particularly tough bacon strip with her knife and fork, glad of a little mindless distraction.
	fan.inkstigmata.net /rockyroad/crisis.html (5821 words)

	Crisis of Faith : a BtVS/Angel fanfiction by Mary Borsellino © 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Crisis of Faith : a BtVS/Angel fanfiction by Mary Borsellino © 2000
		"Faith was doing an almost flawless impersonation of Faith, Lindsey thought to himself as he followed her down a short flight of stairs.
		Explinations of the Crisis of Faith stories is a short ramble by me about the series, with some fanart I've done.
	fan.inkstigmata.net /rockyroad/crisisoffaithindex.html (505 words)

	The Crisis of Faith
		A crisis in general is a situation that was unexpected but that poses certain grave problems for urgent solution.
		Other people are not yet ready to discard the Faith they may still cherish with one part of their being, maybe for emotional or ritual or personal reasons.
		There is a crisis of faith in the Catholic Church because there has been an intrusion of alien ideas.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Faith/0304-96/crisis.html (1982 words)

	What in the World Is Faith, Anyway? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Your faith will make you strong." But when we ask the $64,000 question, "Just believe what?" many are not exactly snappy in their response.
		It was faith that made Father Damien live among (and eventually become one of) the lepers of Molokai.
		What I mean is this: Christian faith says that God is deeply, passionately in love with you and me. It says that the burning love you see between two people on their wedding day is a sort of dim shadow of how God loves us.
	www.catholicexchange.com /vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=21616 (1652 words)

	A Crisis of Faith?
		The next crisis might very well be a crisis of faith, but not because we are somehow being forced to remake Christianity according to the norms of the new cosmology.
		The real crisis of faith is not going to come from the challenge of scientific cosmology, but from our losing sight of the Christian mysteries and the faith and love needed to contemplate them ever more deeply and try to express them ever more adequately.
		I think that there is a crisis of faith in the Church because there is such a crisis on an individual level.
	www.innerexplorations.com /chtheomortext/whatiscrisis.htm (3371 words)

	A Crisis of Faith
		Our crisis came last month, not because a member of our rapidly growing congregation had begun to question his faith, but because he had begun to acquire a little too much of it.
		Roger soon developed the unshakable faith that the belief system he had created was so right for him that it was the only right choice for everyone else.
		They felt that Roger was violating the amorphous faith upon which the church had been built, and they demanded action.
	www.globe-guardian.com /archives/religism/cryes/pe9907.htm (322 words)

	Zia Film - Crisis of Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In A Crisis of Faith, noted theologians and authors address the state of "spiritual crisis" the west finds itself in.
		A Crisis of Faith has an edge to it, as well as a sense of urgency.
		Drawing from the work of The Doors, Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors, Jimi Hendrix, Jean-Luc Ponti and others, A Crisis of Faith attempts to draw the viewer into a space where they can experience the depths of the struggle we are in.
	www.ziavideo.com /data/product/crisisfaith.htm (1106 words)

	Salon Books \| Crisis of faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That is significant because so many secular intellectuals, particularly those opposed to religion, seem to assume that the desire for psychological comfort is the primary engine of religious faith.
		At the core of these books -- see Nicholas Humphrey's "Leaps of Faith," Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" and Richard Dawkins' "Unweaving the Rainbow" -- can usually be found the view that all such beliefs are childish searches for consolation in the face of death and life's injustice.
		The latest addition to this line is Wendy Kaminer's "Sleeping with Extraterrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety," a well-intentioned though curmudgeonly tirade against various forms of "irrational" belief currently sweeping our nation.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/12/24/scientists_religion (854 words)

	www.AndrewSullivan.com - Latest Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When faith becomes public and fundamentalist at the same time, there is a real crisis for liberal politics (and I mean liberal in the very old sense, i.e.
		I greatly enjoyed your essay "Crisis of Faith" and found the formulations of conservatives of doubt and faith to be a constructive, innovative contribution to the discussion about the future of conservative philosophy.
		In America, in contrast, we have an absolutist liberalism of faith, represented by the execrable Roe decision, versus an absolutist conservatism of faith, represented by the GOP platform outlawing all abortions.
	www.andrewsullivan.com /main_article.php?artnum=20050429 (5103 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Many of them speak of another Islam - their personal, private faith - and the restoration of religion to the sphere of the personal - its depoliticisation - is the nettle that all Muslim societies must grasp in order to become modern.
		The only aspect of modernity in which the terrorists are interested is technology, which they see as a weapon that can be turned against its makers.
		If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4290897,00.html (729 words)

	Crisis of Faith
		We said in the introduction to this Wilderness Cycle of stories that a ground rule of interpretation we should follow if we were to learn the lessons of faith from them is: "All eyes on Moses." It is in Moses' struggles, not the people's, that we see a man growing in the life of faith.
		Their response to every fresh crisis is to see it as a reason to give up on God: his response is to see it as a reason to go to God, to wait on God, to look for God.
		Believe it: when God uproots us from Elim and brings us to the crisis of faith we face at Rephidim, it is because He has a wonder to show us greater than any we have seen yet.
	www2.eis.net.au /~paulh/ex12hp.htm (2337 words)

	Transcript of CATHOLICISM: CRISIS OF FAITH
		The Roman Catholic Church is a church in crisis.
		NARRATOR Catholic priest Father Richard Chilson is the author of eight books on the Catholic faith including Catholic Christianity(21) and An Introduction to the Faith of Catholics.
		For, as St. Irenaeus says, she, 'being obedient, became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.' Hence in their preaching not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert with him: 'The knot of Eve's disobedience was united by Mary's obedience.
	www.jesus-is-lord.com /crisis.htm (9963 words)

	Exposing Catholicism: Crisis of Faith
		An example is Catholicism: Crisis of Faith, a slick, 54-minute video featuring interviews with former Catholics—several of whom were priests and nuns—who now claim their one-time co-religionists are not Christian.
		Catholicism: Crisis of Faith is cunningly packaged to look like a Catholic video—and for a good reason.
		The original release of Catholicism: Crisis Of Faith showed a statue depicting a woman on a crucifix.
	www.catholic.com /library/Exposing_Catholicism.asp (2174 words)

	Hellblazer: Crisis of faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Check out the Salon article on The Crisis of the Pro War Liberals.
		The world, America and Iraq, was denied these opportunities by a tyrannical dictator bent on war, and profiteering, and willing to trash the constitution, countless international legal standards and treaties, the UN, our allies, American taxpayers, the US military, and the victimized people of Iraq, to achieve their singular and woefully misguided ambitions and agenda.
		The crisis at hand transcends liberal/conservative, hawk/dove, democrat/republican constructs - and cuts directly to the heart and essential principles of American democracy.
	www.hellblazer.com /archives/2003/09/crisis_of_faith.html (484 words)

	Unbiased help for people having a crisis of faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		FaithCrisis.com was created to provide understanding and unbiased help to individuals who are experiencing a crisis of faith -- no matter what their spiritual or religious affiliation.
		We aim to support people whose faith has been shaken -- whether it be their faith in God, in themselves, in their fellow man, in life.
		And, for those who value spiritual fellowship, we support faith in ongoing organizational involvements -- either with their current group, or another.
	www.faithcrisis.com /home.html (174 words)

	Crisis of Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I have had discussions - both on and offline - in regards to a crisis of faith within Wicca.
		How could a Buddhist monk who lived a perfect wife and followed his faith to the letter be condemned to hell because Jesus wasn't involved.
		Yes in the very beginning when I was first changing from chrisianty to the wiccan faith there were times that I had douts about my decition.
	www.holysmoke.org /w002/028.htm (394 words)

	Connect -Crisis of Faith
		Many were overtaken by a crisis of faith, of conviction, one could say.
		This poser stared in the face of every man, woman and child, who thronged the churches, the temples, the synagogues and the mosques to light the candles of vigil and to pray for the dead and for those who lost their loved ones.
		Faith tends to be shaken and God put in question in times of crisis like this, natural or man-made, and during even worse catastrophes in history like the much-maligned holocaust in the forties that claimed millions of Jewish lives.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit10292001/index.asp (1089 words)

	Salon \| Crisis of faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the contrary, for almost a third of his respondents, belief in God is founded on an essentially rationalist answer -- these people are convinced there is a God because the universe seems so highly ordered that to them it suggests the hand of a conscious creator.
		For the faithful, God and the soul are fundamental aspects of the real.
		Here the "true" reality is the one scientists describe, and religious beliefs become artifacts of psychocultural delusion to be explained by the "higher" powers of science.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/1999/12/24/scientists_religion/print.html (2302 words)

	Crisis of Faith - Prolog
		If Faith really didn't remember any of that time, she didn't remember turning to evil.
		Faith and I were in the apartment the Mayor got for her.
		"From what I know of Faith, her capacity for evil, her 'dark side' as it were, has its origins in her deep childhood, its threads running throughout her psyche.
	home.cogeco.ca /~ckenworthy1/tales/timeline/demons/folder1/faith-0.htm (1151 words)

	Amazon.com: Crisis of Faith, Crisis of Love (Crisis of Faith, Crisis of Love): Books: Thomas Keating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Under the influence of Christian mystics such as St. John of the Cross, Keating weaves a narrative account of spiritual development that will be of more interest to spiritual directors and seekers than scholars.
		The influence of St. John of the Cross means that much significance is attached to silence and crisis, the dark night of the soul that drives the beloved relentlessly toward union with God.
		As one example, Father Keating's treatment of the raising of Lazarus, lovely in its simplicity, is a powerful look at faith, patience, love, original sin, personal sin, reconciliation, and how Jesus's humanity was touched by the incident.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826408052?v=glance (819 words)

	Matthew Yglesias: A Crisis Of Faith?
		I've been reading Andrew Sullivan's indictment of contemporary American conservatism (which he's decided to term "the conservatism of faith") and the ensuing replies with some interest.
		Both place great faith in the grand illusions of certainty--why bother with details and policy when one is of the "true faith"?
		Saying that there is no crisis is a perfectly wonky position if there is, in fact, no crisis.
	yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2005/04/a_crisis_of_fai.html (2310 words)

	Uncommon Descent » ID and the Charge of Fundamentalism
		I comment on it here because the story is relevant to ID’s resistance within mainstream Christian higher eduction (i.e., CCCU schools).
		Hamilton, as it turns out, was offered to head Baylor’s Institute for Faith and Learning two years back (I’m still officially part of that institute until my contract with Baylor expires May 31).
		Instead of seeing it as one component in the larger project of integrating faith and learning, Hamilton repudiates it, referring to me and my colleagues as a “cultural militants,” identifying ID with “fundamentalism.,” and regarding it as a colossal mistake (”head-shaking blunder”) that Baylor ever got involved with this topic by hiring me.
	www.uncommondescent.com /index.php/archives/105 (1922 words)

	All in the Family: Edith's Crisis of Faith (1) - TV.com
		Edith's religious faith is shaken after her friend female impersonator Beverly LaSalle is brutally murdered by street thungs at Christmas.
		We don't have notes for Edith's Crisis of Faith (1).
		We don't have quotes for Edith's Crisis of Faith (1).
	www.tv.com /all-in-the-family/ediths-crisis-of-faith-1/episode/38279/summary.html (158 words)

	devotions.com: A Crisis Of Faith
		Ironically, this particular crisis of faith didn’t come from bad news that came my way.
		Roger Bennett, pianist for The Cathedrals, recently shared a similar crisis of faith when he was diagnosed with leukemia.
		I had hoped my faith would be stronger after eight years of calling myself a Christian.
	www.devotions.com /test/1999/02/crisis-of-faith.html (642 words)

	Crisis of faith
		I personally know many other parents and grandparents who are in the same predicament and are equally concerned about the loss of faith in their families, I speak for them as well.
		They no longer know their faith, they no longer know God, they live as pagans, rarely thinking of God, or the teachings of his Church.
		What is happening in their lives is so alien to what we believe, that often we refuse to face the truth and are in a state of denial.
	www.ad2000.com.au /articles/2002/feb2002p13_918.html (592 words)

	Spirituality & Health
		FAITH Spiritual Innovators: Seventy-Five Who Changed the World in the Past Century edited by Ira Rifkin and the editors of Skylight Paths pays tribute to a wide variety of prophets and activists from all the world's religions who have deepened and enriched their times.
		Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber presents an ecologist's account of her pregnancy and the dangers fetuses face from toxic substances in the environment.
		Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey Through the Jewish Year by Harvey Cox is a sophisticated and sensitive mapping of Judaism's depths by a theologian who is married to a commited Jew and is raising a Jewish son.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/lists/pthp_bookreview_12.html (7992 words)

	McCarrick sees crisis of faith
		"While all this is going on, we're still trying to be faithful to the teaching of the Gospel, we're still trying to reach out and call people to holiness, we're still trying to make a contribution to the society," Cardinal McCarrick said.
		If the former, and the candidate for the seminary is chaste, there's no way of identifying his disordered condition save a direct question, which he could in good conscience avoid under the theory of "mental reservation," seeing as his private temptations are none of anyone's business.
		If the latter, however, such a person holds a moral belief contrary to the Church, and under no circumstances should such a person be allowed to continue his formation as a priest and minister to the Catholic faithful.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/religion/753081/posts (890 words)

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