Aligning with lives of faith

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• 作者：Terence Cuneo
• 关键词：Alignment ; Eastern Orthodox Christianity ; Faith ; Liturgy ; St. Jacob of Alaska
• 刊名：International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：81
• 期：1-2
• 页码：83-97
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy of Religion; Religious Studies, general; Non-Western Philosophy;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8684
• 卷排序：81

文摘

The philosophical and theological discussion regarding religious faith has primarily concerned itself with the abstract issues of what faith is, whether it can be rationally held, and how an agent can acquire, sustain, or deepen faith. The issue of how we should orient ourselves to the faith of others and the role such orientation might play in the religious life hasn’t been much discussed. It is this topic that I propose to address in this essay. I do so by considering a little-known nineteenth-century saint of the Eastern Orthodox church, St. Jacob of Alaska, exploring the ways in which the liturgy calls for its participants to engage with St. Jacob’s life of faith. I develop and defend the claim that it calls for the religiously committed to align their lives with the lives of exemplars such as St. Jacob.