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Christian pietism has long provided the soil for fideism, and from within theology many theologians followed Rudolf Bultmann by accepting the positivist constraints, agreeing that Christian faith is not a matter of public truths, but of privatized, individual truths (Drew 2005: 21).

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noun Reliance on faith alone rather than scientific reasoning or philosophy in questions of religion.

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Here again, let us not attribute to Newman a fideism entirely foreign to his authentic thought. — Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
Christian pietism has long provided the soil for fideism, and from within theology many theologians followed Rudolf Bultmann by accepting the positivist constraints, agreeing that Christian faith is not a matter of public truths, but of privatized, individual truths (Drew 2005: 21). — my contemplations
I found myself treated to a direct confrontation with the issue of unbelief and attacks on faith in the media-it ended up being a weak case for fideism. — GetReligion
He seemed less strongly opposed to atheistic positivism than to relativistic doctrines that promote neo-orthodox fideism, because neo-orthodox fideism quietly voids faith while pretending to espouse it. — Radosh.net
It seemed to me at first glance that Christ was, in this instance, endorsing fideism. — The Prosblogion