Faith
Not mere agreement but trust: the hand that reaches out to receive what God gives
Faith is the trusting assent to God and his revelation by which a person receives salvation. The New Testament, especially Paul and Hebrews 11, presents it as confident reliance on God's promises, and Augustine deepened reflection on it. Christians broadly agree on faith's centrality, though they differ over how faith relates to human works in salvation, a question taken up under justification. Faith itself, as trust in God, is held in common.
How it traveled
- JamesJerusalem · 62explains
- 1 PeterRome · 64explains
- HebrewsRome · 67explains
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- 1 TimothyEphesus · 67explains
- GalatiansEphesus · 67explains
- PhilippiansRome · 67explains
- 1 CorinthiansEphesus · 67explains
- 2 CorinthiansPhilippi · 67explains
- 1 ThessaloniansCorinth · 67explains
- EphesiansRome · 67explains
- 2 TimothyRome · 67explains
- 2 ThessaloniansCorinth · 67explains
- ColossiansRome · 67applies
- PhilemonRome · 67explains
- MarkRome · 68explains
- MatthewAntioch · 80explains
- ActsRome · 84explains
- LukeRome · 84explains
- JudeJerusalem · 90explains
- First Epistle to the CorinthiansRome · 99applies
- JohnEphesus · 100explains
- 1 JohnEphesus · 100explains
- RevelationPatmos · 100explains
- Epistle to the Smyrnæans: Shorter and Longer VersionsAntioch · 108explains
- Dialogue with TryphoRome · 165explains
- Against Heresies: Book IVLyons · 202explains
- Against Heresies: Book VLyons · 202explains
- Exhortation to the HeathenAlexandria · 215explains
- The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.— · 220explains
Key passages(20)
Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations · Aphrahat
Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations · Aphrahat
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril · Cyril of Jerusalem
XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation · Jonathan Edwards
A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter · Augustine of Hippo
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Commentary on Galatians · Martin Luther