Crisis of faith (original) (raw)
A crisis of faith is a deep and painful questioning, loss, or transformation of belief. Commonly, the term is used in reference to a crisis of religious faith, such as doubt about the existence or doubt about the goodness of God, but it can also be used when faith in humanity, society, an institution, or belief in an ideology are in question, and it especially can be used when an interconnected web of beliefs is challenged. It may designate an individual's internal struggle with their own faith, or an era of collective struggle.
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| dbo:abstract | A crisis of faith is a deep and painful questioning, loss, or transformation of belief. Commonly, the term is used in reference to a crisis of religious faith, such as doubt about the existence or doubt about the goodness of God, but it can also be used when faith in humanity, society, an institution, or belief in an ideology are in question, and it especially can be used when an interconnected web of beliefs is challenged. It may designate an individual's internal struggle with their own faith, or an era of collective struggle. As a literary motif the crisis of faith has been employed for thousands of years; the Book of Job is an early example. Often compared to night or winter, a crisis of faith is poetically called a "dark night of the soul," a name which is taken from a 16th-century Spanish poem. Similar to descriptions of an existential crisis or the condition melancholia, a crisis of faith often includes a loss of meaning, identity, and joy. Experiences of misogyny and homophobia in religious institutions are characteristic of crises of faith reported during and after the 1960s. Doubt about historical or supernatural claims of a holy text was widely recorded both during and after the Victorian Crisis of Faith. A crisis of trust in religious authority or a crisis of belief in God has followed traumatic historical events such as the Armenian genocide, The Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. Exposure to people or ideas which are outside one's own religious tradition sometimes sparks or intensifies a crisis of faith, along with disagreements which exist among believers. An open-ended process, a crisis of faith is resolved in different ways by different people. Some people develop a reconsidered and even a strengthened faith; other people learn to accept a loss of faith. In American evangelicalism, where the refinement or rejection of beliefs is called faith deconstruction, people who are experiencing spiritual crises have reported fear of being rejected by their family and community. Though literature sometimes likens a crisis of faith to a lonely journey in a desolate landscape, its apprehensions can be interpersonal and social in nature. (en) |
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| dbp:text | Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. (en) If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. (en) It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. ... Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. (en) |
| dbp:title | Night (en) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (en) The Fire Next Time (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | A crisis of faith is a deep and painful questioning, loss, or transformation of belief. Commonly, the term is used in reference to a crisis of religious faith, such as doubt about the existence or doubt about the goodness of God, but it can also be used when faith in humanity, society, an institution, or belief in an ideology are in question, and it especially can be used when an interconnected web of beliefs is challenged. It may designate an individual's internal struggle with their own faith, or an era of collective struggle. (en) |
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