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Often appears with: language, naming, and meaning · knowledge of christ · implicit faith · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · conversion and faith · augustine
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · censure (1)
Calvin argues that faith must include knowledge of Jesus Christ sent by the Father, rejects the idea of faith that ignores understanding, and criticizes “implicit faith” as veiled ignorance blamed on schoolmen.
and the life;” because “no man cometh unto the Father,” who is the fountain of life, “but by him;”(1428) because he alone knows the Father, and reveals him to believers.(1429) For this reason Paul asserts, that he esteemed nothing worthy of being known but Jesus Christ;(1430) and in the twentieth chapter of the Acts declares, that he had preached faith in Christ; and in another place, he introduces Christ speaking i…