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In Christian theology, fideism is any of a number of positions.
It is occasionally used to refer to a belief that Christians are saved by faith alone: for which see sola fide. This position is sometimes called solifidianism. Note that sola fide is a doctrine mostly accepted by Protestants.
A more widely used meaning for the term is that fideism essentially teaches that reason is more-or-less irrelevant to religious belief. Specifically, fideism teaches that arguments for the existence of God are fallacious and irrelevant, and have nothing to do with the truth of Christian theology. Its argument in essence goes:
* Christian theology teaches that people are saved by faith.
* But, if God’s existence can be proven, either empirically or logically, faith becomes irrelevant.
* Therefore, if Christian theology is true, no proof of God’s existence is possible.