TY - BOOK AU - Springsted,Eric O. TI - The act of faith: Christian faith and the moral self SN - 0802848885 AV - BT 771.3 .S67 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - William B. Eerdmans KW - Faith KW - Christian ethics KW - History of doctrines KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Contents; Reason and the reasons of the heart; Introduction: the heart has its reasons; The Lockean-Humean picture; The spectator's view; Shattering the mirror of nature; Moral space; The notion of moral space; The center of value; The concept of faith in the New Testament; Faith and faith in Christ; Paul; John; The Letter to the Hebrews; Augustine; Will and order: The moral self in Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio; The word and the inner word; Aquinas and Calvin; Catholics and protestants: ancient and modern; Aquinas on faith; Calvin and "reformed epistemology"; Summary; Attention and the embodied self; Nussbaum's enriched liberalism; Simone Weil and the formation of attention; Conclusion; Conscience, faith and the knowledge of God; Souls and life in the good; Thinkin with assent: the "inner" act of faith; Faith in God; Conclusion ER -