The Epistemology of Belief

I made a contribution to Ed’s Radix Fidem project, and he published it as a guest post. You can read it all here, but a sample is below.

There was a lot of back and forth and deleting while I was writing it. It’s a slippery topic. Honestly, with English as my first language—hence, the genera; direction in which my thoughts are oriented—doesn’t make exposition of this subject easy at all. While I don’t think what I wrote is necessarily inaccurate, I certainly didn’t nail it down the way I wanted to.

Faith, and how humans “come to” faith lies, ultimately. beyond human comprehension. The workings of the metaphysical domain are conducted on a level humanity is not able to fully understand–though, obviously, we are able to experience in some manner while living in our fallen condition, in our current, physical, domain. Much like how we react to an object of beauty or wonder, it’s perhaps best described as an experience (a continuum of experiences, really) and not a series of objects apprehended with our material reasoning toolkit.