None of these painters seem interested in spirituality as a social idea or abstraction as a historical category, but they share a real belief in the metaphysical properties of work, materials, process and practice, a kind of secular faith in the possibilities of non-objective image - making. (painters-table.com)
In Saving and Secular Faith Gerrish turns his focus from history to constructive theology. (religion-online.org)
Indeed, everybody holds certain principles of «elemental faith»: for example, that the world has some kind of order to it, and that we have some kind of moral responsibility Elemental faith and other forms of secular faith provide «points of contact» for Christians trying to explain saving faith. (religion-online.org)