Wilfred Cantwell Smith Faith And Belief. He has published many academic texts as well as journal articles and has been on the editorial board of seven scholarly journals in the UK and overseas. Written by a highly respected scholar in the field of. Love Science and the Studyof Religion Suzanne Smith Wilfred Cantwell Smith the influential scholar of Islam and reformer of the modern comparative study of religion provoked controversy in arguing that one cannot understand a religion without studying persons or persons without studying their faith. Faith and belief by Wilfred Cantwell Smith 1979 Princeton University Press edition in English.
The Difference between Them One World Publications 1998 said this. Is what or whether one believes the significant religious question. Wilfred Cantwell Smith is Professor Emeritus of the Comparative History of Religion at Harvard and was also Chairman of the Study of Religion there. He has published many academic texts as well as journal articles and has been on the editorial board of seven scholarly journals in the UK and overseas. The Harvard Gazette characterized him as one of the fields most influential figures of the past century. Faith and Belief Smith Wilfred Cantwell ISBN.
Smith maintains that the word belief once conveyed absolute certainty whereas today it conveys doubt or hesitation at best.
WILFRED CANTWELL SMITH ON FAITH AND BELIEF In a series of important and influential books1 Wilfred Cantwell Smith has convincingly argued that religious traditions are misunderstood if one does not grasp the faith which they express that these traditions are not static but fluid and that as a result of greater knowledge and increased contact. His academic career has taken him from Lahore India through Montreal to Harvard. In his 1962 work The Meaning and End of Religion he notably and controversially questioned the validi. Love Science and the Studyof Religion Suzanne Smith Wilfred Cantwell Smith the influential scholar of Islam and reformer of the modern comparative study of religion provoked controversy in arguing that one cannot understand a religion without studying persons or persons without studying their faith. Faith is an orientation of the personality to oneself to ones neighbour to the universe Faith is the capacity to live see feel and act in awareness of what is transcendent. Biblical scholar and Harvard Prof.