Michael Paul Gallagher's Four Forms Of Faith

Michael Paul Gallagher, Frederick Nietzsch and Soren Kierkegaard all have different views on faith and its place in people’s lives. Each of these publishers express their view on how faith should be either kept alive or forgotten about or how faith is becoming somewhat blocked from our lives. Gallagher speaks of the four forms of cultural unbelief “religious anaemia, secular marginilisation, anchorless spirituality and cultural desolation”. Here Gallagher identifies the causes of why faith has become less important in people’s lives due to a lack of change or boredom. Unlike Gallagher who believes faith should still view a dominant culture in the Christian life, Frederick Nietzsch I believe expresses how faith blocks people from the truth

This is prevented for many people as faith is blocked or effected by certain things. Gallagher writes the causes that stop faith being a dominant culture in the Christian vision. These are called by Gallagher as the four forms of cultural unbelief. With the four forms, Gallagher displays the barriers that prevent people from holding faith and affecting the faith within the Christian church. Such as media lack of change and the privacy based around religion. Other publishers such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Kasper also express opinions on if faith should view a dominant culture in the Christian vision. Nietzsch shows how he does not believe that faith should be forgotten about and abandoned describing it as a sacrifice. I disagree with the statement that having faith causes you to loose your freedom faith can allow a person to have hope in their lives. Unlike nietzsch, kirkegaard and kasper back up the argument that faith should be present in the Christian life. Both these publishers express how faith can benefit people by benefiting their personal experience and linking us all together. I do think that faith should view a dominant culture in the Christian vision and some changes should be made in order to make faith more available to