When a Lutheran and a Catholic each talk
of faith, does each define the word by some comprehensive abstract system, or by the complex associations the word has in a great range
of shared biblical texts, such as Romans 1 with its talk
of faith as that by which we live, I
Corinthians 13 with its association
of faith with hope and
love, and Hebrews 11 with its
definition of faith as assurance and conviction?