# The Meaning of Faith

Author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969

Genre: Category: Religion/Spirituality

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40482

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Meaning+of+Faith+Fosdick&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Discussion about faith generally starts with faith's _reasonableness_; let us begin with faith's _inevitableness_. If it were possible somehow to live without faith, the whole subject might be treated merely as an affair of curious interest. But if faith is an unescapable necessity in every human life, then we must come to terms with it, understand it, and use it as intelligently as we can. _There are certain basic elements in man which make it impossible to live without faith._ Let us consider these, as they are suggested in the Epistle to the Hebrews, which, better than any other book in the Bible, presents faith as an unavoidable human attitude.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-faith-40482/chapters/2/index.md)