The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (782 page)

Fideism
.

The view that true knowledge of God can be attained only by faith on the basis of revelation. Reason is therefore subordinated to faith where otherwise problematic issues or questions arise.

 
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Fides quaerens intellectum
(‘faith seeking understanding’)
:

see
ANSELM
.

 
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Fifth Monarchy Men
.

Members of a short-lived elitist
millennarian
movement in England in the mid-17th cent. Its members, mainly artisans, journeymen, and apprentices, anticipated the establishment of the ‘fifth monarchy’ of Daniel 2. 44. Following Venner's rebellion (1661) the movement died out.

 
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(1782–1867).
Russian Orthodox
renewer of the Church, and Metropolitan of Moscow. Through the Holy Synod from 1819, he worked for the independence of Church from State, but in 1842 he was excluded from the synod because of his support for translations of scripture into modern Russian. He devoted much time to the reform of clergy education, producing
The Longer Catechism
(1823, rev., 1839).

 
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Filial piety
(Confucian influenced virtue in E. Asian ethics)
:

see
HSIAO
.

 
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(Lat., ‘and the Son’), the formula in the W. form of the
Nicene Creed
which expressed the ‘double procession’ (i.e. from both Father and Son) of the
Holy Spirit
. Since the time of
Photius
, a strong opponent, the
filioque
has been a central point of controversy between E. and W. Churches. The Orthodox point to the original creed omitting it, and to the need for a single ‘fount of divinity’ (
p
g
theot
tos
, viz. the Father) within the Godhead.