Summary: Does faith in God differ from dogma and morality?
This week’s question builds on a distinction made by the Texas Faith editors and Eric Metaxas, in which the concepts of faith, dogma, and morality are scrutinized. Are these three concepts interrelated, or can one focus on one to the exclusion of the others? DT Strain, Humanist Minister: Dogma technically means simply the doctrines of a [...]
Faith versus Dogma and Morality
In this week’s Texas Faith, managing editor William McKenzie manages to ask a particularly obtuse question: “Is there a distinction between faith in God and dogma and morality?” One needs only survey the vast and diverse landscape of believers who claim to have faith in the existence of some form of deity to see that [...]
Is there a distinction between faith in God and dogma and morality?
The fact that the terms “faith” and “dogma” and “morality” have different senses makes this a difficult question to answer in a way that would be compelling to most readers. For example, consider the term “faith.” As Richard Dawkins understands it, faith is believing against the evidence (or believing in the absence of any evidence) [...]