{"id":2354,"date":"2025-05-08T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2354"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:51:58","slug":"glossary-faith-act-of-faith-belief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2354","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY &#8211; Faith &#8211; Act of Faith &#8211; Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2354\" class=\"elementor elementor-2354\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28100308 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"28100308\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f5b0233 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6f5b0233\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23e6ebe9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"23e6ebe9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a06378a elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a06378a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">FAITH, ACT OF FAITH, BELIEF<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f1a0cc elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f1a0cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote><p align=\"justify\">\u201cWithout faith one cannot live.\u201d \u201cFaith is the capacity for\u00a0<em>openness to something more<\/em>; a capacity that is given to us neither by the senses nor by the intellect. This openness could be called openness to transcendence. Through faith Man is capable of transcending himself, of growing, of opening himself to something more \u2026 to <em>God\u201d (The Experience of God).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p align=\"justify\"><strong>Faith<\/strong>\u00a0is \u201ca\u00a0<em>constitutive human existentiell<\/em>\u201d; it is an\u00a0<em>existential openness<\/em>\u00a0to transcendence, an<em>\u00a0ontological relationship<\/em>\u00a0with the Absolute. Every human being, by the fact of being human, has faith, whether cultivated or not, whether conscious or unconscious. Faith is not the privilege of a few or the \u201cspecialty\u201d of certain chosen groups; it is not a \u201cluxury\u201d, but rather \u201can anthropological dimension\u201d.<\/p><p align=\"justify\">The\u00a0<strong>act of faith<\/strong> is the activity by which faith is manifested; it springs from the heart as symbol of the whole Man and by which he is propelled to the third dimension). The experience of faith is \u201c<em>a primordial anthropological act<\/em>\u201d, that is not to be confused with belief with its symbolic (credo) and intellectual (dogmas) conceptual formulation. \u201cAn act of faith is salvific in itself \u2026 and can only be elicited by a human being when he is moved by divine grace\u201d (Faith and Belief\u201d.<\/p><p align=\"justify\"><strong>Belief<\/strong>\u00a0is the\u00a0<em>symbolic expression of faith<\/em>; it is \u201cthe\u00a0<em>formulization<\/em>, the<em> doctrinal<\/em>\u00a0<em>articulation\u00a0<\/em>generally made by a collectivity, that has been crystallizing in propositions, phrases, assertions or in Christian terms, dogmas\u201d (<em>The Experience of God<\/em>). Beliefs entail an institutionalization that gives rise to the religions.<\/p><p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=981\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&lt;&lt; back<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH, ACT OF FAITH, BELIEF \u201cWithout faith one cannot live.\u201d \u201cFaith is the capacity for\u00a0openness to something more; a capacity that is given to us neither by the senses nor by the intellect. This openness could be called openness to transcendence. 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