Rational fideism

[[Richard Popkin]] sees rational fideism as the opposite of "pure, blind, fideism".<ref>Ira O.Wade, ''Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment,'' Princeton University Press, 1971, p. 552.</ref>

[[Richard Popkin]] sees rational fideism as the opposite of "pure, blind, fideism".<ref>Ira O.Wade, ''Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment,'' Princeton University Press, 1971, p. 552.</ref>

Similarly, Domenic Marbaniang sees rational fideism as "the view that the knowledge of God can be certified through faith alone that is based on a revelation that is rationally verified."<ref name="Marbaniang">{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Marbaniang |first=Domenic Savio |year=2007 |institution=[[ACTS Academy of Higher Education]] |title=Epistemics of Divine Reality |url=https://www.academia.edu/38226207}}</ref> Observing that the way of both [[rationalism]] and [[empiricism]] towards the knowledge of ultimate or transcendent reality is bleak, he thinks that while [[fideism]] is the view that truth in religion rests solely on faith and not on a reasoning process, rational fideism "holds that truth in religion rests solely on faith; not blind faith, but faith that can give rational and cogent answers or reason to warrant the belief."<ref name="Marbaniang"/>

Similarly, Domenic Marbaniang sees rational fideism as "the view that the knowledge of God can be certified through faith alone that is based on a revelation that is rationally verified."<ref name="Marbaniang">{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Marbaniang |first=Domenic Savio |year=2007 |institution=[[ACTS Academy of Higher Education]] |title=Epistemics of Divine Reality: An Argument for Rational Fideism |url=https://www.academia.edu/38226207}}</ref> Observing that the way of both [[rationalism]] and [[empiricism]] towards the knowledge of ultimate or transcendent reality is bleak, he thinks that while [[fideism]] is the view that truth in religion rests solely on faith and not on a reasoning process, rational fideism "holds that truth in religion rests solely on faith; not blind faith, but faith that can give rational and cogent answers or reason to warrant the belief."<ref name="Marbaniang"/>

According to [[C. Stephen Evans]], rational fideism involves the possibility of reason becoming self-critical. Seeing it as the kind of responsible fideism, he states, "If human reason has limitations and also has some ability to recognise those limitations, then the possibility of responsible fideism emerges."<ref>{{cite book |first=Charles Stephen |last=Evans |author-link=C. Stephen Evans |title=Faith Beyond Reason |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVi5wAEACAAJ |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |year=1998 |page=55 |isbn=9780748607945}}</ref> Evans states that not only does reason have limitations, it is also tainted by sin making one entitled to faith where reason fails.<ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Butcher |first=Matthew P. |year=2013 |institution=[[Loyola University Chicago]] |title=Fideism, Evidentialism, and the Epistemology of Religious Belief|url=https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1507&context=luc_diss}}</ref>

According to [[C. Stephen Evans]], rational fideism involves the possibility of reason becoming self-critical. Seeing it as the kind of responsible fideism, he states, "If human reason has limitations and also has some ability to recognise those limitations, then the possibility of responsible fideism emerges."<ref>{{cite book |first=Charles Stephen |last=Evans |author-link=C. Stephen Evans |title=Faith Beyond Reason |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVi5wAEACAAJ |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |year=1998 |page=55 |isbn=9780748607945}}</ref> Evans states that not only does reason have limitations, it is also tainted by sin making one entitled to faith where reason fails.<ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Butcher |first=Matthew P. |year=2013 |institution=[[Loyola University Chicago]] |title=Fideism, Evidentialism, and the Epistemology of Religious Belief|url=https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1507&context=luc_diss}}</ref>