Some Other Words on Skepticism and Christianity

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  • Rodrigo Pinto de Brito Universidade Federal de Sergipe

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_14_3

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Fideism, Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus, Early Christianity, Renaissance

Abstract

The interaction between Christianism and skepti-cism has usually been treated relying on texts restricted to the context of modernity, and hence to what came to be called ‘fideism’, which consists of raising skeptical doubts about any doctrine or rational argument with a view to demonstrate the contradictions of reason and to propose as alternative a leap of faith. However, this work aims to foment the research about the influence of the approach of the ancient Pyrrhonic skeptical dýnamis – so, not doubter but investigative, aporetic and sus-pensive – on works of important thinkers of the early Christianity and of the Renaissance.

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2025-11-26

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Brito, R. P. de. (2025). Some Other Words on Skepticism and Christianity. Revista Archai, (14), 27. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_14_3

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