The ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ and Externalism on Faith
Abstract
Different proposals have been presented recently about the nature of faith. In many of these theories there has not been a sufficient understanding and discussion of several phenomena that occurs to people with a deep interior life of faith. One of these phenomena is the noche oscura del alma –as it was dubbed by Saint John of the Cross. In a noche oscura the presence of God is darkened for the faithful. In fact, it seems to him that he has no faith. Neither internalist theories of faith, nor non-cognitivist theories of faith seem able to explain properly how it is possible a phenomenon like la noche oscura. Instead, cognitivist and externalist theories of faith seem appropriate.References
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