Descartes used something like it in his Discourse on Method, but one senses that there was actually some faith left in Descartes' fideism. |
Ward would, I imagine, deplore its readiness to embrace cultural dissolution, its reckless fideism, and its unnecessary obscurity. |
On the contrary, its abdication from the realm of the mind can make it seem another form of fideism. |
Claiming that no compelling evidence exists and then refusing to acknowledge the existence of any evidence is simply a form of atheistic fideism. |
In fact, the church's public argument is based on reason and science, not fideism. |
At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics. |