By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
On Analyzing Credenda and Agenda as Expressions of Faith
0.Three levels need to be distinguished in analyzing credenda and agenda as expressions of faith.
1. Following my analysis and interpretation of the Apostles' Creed, I distinguish these levels in the case of credenda, or things to be believed, as follows:
(1) the formulations of things to be believed;
(2) the things to be believed themselves, whose formulations (and reformulations) are always only more or less adequate; and
(3) the faith that necessarily implies these things to be believed and that they imply in turn as our authentic possibility of self-understanding.
2. Assuming that faith necessarily implies agenda,or things to be done, as well as credenda, or things to be believed, one can and must distinguish further:
(1) the prescriptions of things to be done, which necessarily involve some empirical beliefs, true or false;
(2) the things to be done themselves, whose prescriptions (and represcriptions) are always only more or less adequate and may even involve some false empirical beliefs; and
(3) the faith that necessarily implies these things to be done and that they imply in turn as our authentic possibility of self-understanding.
n.d.; rev. 19 August 2003
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