The traditional doctrine which holds that all our knowledge must begin with an act of faith in divine revelation, since human reason is impotent to arrive at any certitude regarding the fundamental truths necessary for man to know; also, the doctrine that such truths can be known only by an affective act of faith.

the claim that religious belief must be based on faith alone and cannot be justified by appeal to either objective or subjective reasons

The nineteenth-century view that faith is without rational content or support.

Belief that faith alone is the basis of knowledge rather than reason.

order by term] level: Comprehensive (3) The idea that God can only be known through faith, and not through rational inquiry.

level: Comprehensive (3) [ order by level] The idea that God can only be known through faith, and not through rational inquiry.

The view that truth in religion is ultimately based on faith rather than on reasoning or evidence.  Influenced by Kierkegaard's existentialism and presented most notably this century by neo-orthodox theologians.  Recent forms of fideism are attempts to assert that the fundamental tenents of religion cannot be justified by rational argument or by empirical evidence.

Belief that God is known by faith and not by reason. VT is sometimes accused of fideism, but he repudiated it frequently. See Bahnsen, 77-82.

a doctrine which accepts sceptical arguments for the unattainability of absolutely certain knowledge but which admits definite affirmative judgements nonetheless. See: PS

In Christian theology, fideism is any of several belief systems which hold, on various grounds, that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. According to some versions of fideism, reason is the antithesis of faith; according to others, faith is prior to or beyond reason, and therefore is unable to be proven or disproven by it.