It is not the extreme of unfaith, but rather of weakness and misery.
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Here, in this very house, are there none who hesitate between faith and unfaith?
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Is it because of me that your weakness and unfaith have come upon you?
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His writing is thus informed by faith and unfaith as well as intellect and passion.
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Yet where do we see the lowest point of unfaith and meanness, in Ephraim or succoth?
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And to Thyrsis, on the other hand, the idea of immortality was the consummation of all unfaith.
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But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it.
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He foreboded the fiercest battle the world had yet known between good and evil, faith and unfaith.
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Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith.
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There is a reticence which is of faith, just as there may be a reticence which is of cowardice or unfaith.
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And what we argue is that in this unfaith, hope cannot be present either for both faith and hope require the transcendent unknown.
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But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution.
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True religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.
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True religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.
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Theologically, they are an account of a divine promise and Covenant and of human faith and unfaith in response, with Abraham as the model man of faith.
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The means of supposed transmission of sin, to neo-orthodox minds, is not as important as its pervasive reality. The association of original sin with sexuality—an abiding idea—leads to moralism, a rectitude that is overly optimistic about human capabilities to resist the power of unfaith and disobedience in all areas of life, not just sexual behavior. This core conviction about the universality and intransigence of sin has elements of determinism, and has not surprisingly offended those who think people are capable, wholly or in part, of effecting their own salvation (i.e., synergism).
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She has a conversation with Penthe, her only friend, who expresses an "unfaith" in the divinity of the God-king. Though Tenar reacts to this with shock, the incident opens a new perspective to her. In her own thoughts, "she felt as if she had looked up and suddenly seen a whole new planet hanging huge and populous right outside the window, an entirely strange world, one in which the gods did not matter." Ged acts as a catalyst for this stream of thought, because he is completely alien to her; he is male, brown-skinned, and has a picture of the world is so different from Tenar's own.
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In 1866 he was introduced to Alfred Lord Tennyson and later agreed to design his new house on condition there was no fee. This led to a close friendship, Knowles assisting Tennyson in business matters, and among other things helping to design scenery for the play The Cup, when Henry Irving produced it in 1880. Knowles corresponded with a number of the most interesting men of the day, and in 1869, with Tennyson's cooperation, he founded the Metaphysical Society, the object of which was to attempt some intellectual rapprochement between religion and science by getting the leading representatives of faith and unfaith to meet and exchange views. Members included Tennyson, Gladstone, W. K. Clifford, W. G. Ward, John Morley, Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Thomson, T. H. Huxley, Arthur Balfour, Leslie Stephen, and Sir William Gull.
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