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Why Faith Is a Virtue

[Paperback]

by Dr Philip D Smith (yale University)

Author
Dr Philip D Smith (yale University)
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Cascade Books
Published
March 2014

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Description: What is faith? In what ways might faith be a virtue, a component of a life well lived? How might faith be corrupted and become a vice? In Why Faith Is a Virtue, Philip D. Smith builds on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Adams to argue that faith contributes to human excellence. To make the argument, Smith sorts through conflicting possible "faiths" and shows how some of them are not virtues at all. Nevertheless, he argues that faith, properly understood, contributes to crucial human practices: scientific research, social reform, and parenting. He explains how and why faith is a virtue.