#faith

• Adoration — The act of adoring and its result; the supreme manifestation of religious worship owed exclusively to the divinity, characterized by deep piety and absolute submission. In a secular or psychological context, the term denotes a state of passionate love, boundless admiration, or profound and idealized attachment toward a person or symbol.
• One thing is to conceal, another to be silent — A famous Latin expression originating from Cicero's writings (De Officiis), literally translated as 'one thing is to conceal, another to be silent'. In a legal and moral sense, the maxim establishes a clear distinction between the deliberate, fraudulent act of hiding an essential truth that one is obligated to reveal (constituting fraud or bad faith) and simple passive silence or omission regarding facts that one is not legally or contractually bound to disclose.
• Antinomianism — A theological doctrine or radical philosophical attitude maintaining that Christians are freed from the obligation to observe the moral, civil, or ritual laws of the Old Testament, asserting that salvation is obtained exclusively through faith and divine grace; in a broad sense, it represents the rejection or challenging of any normative, legal, or institutional authority in the name of absolute spiritual or ethical freedom.
• Antinomian — A person who adheres to the principles of antinomism or who maintains that the moral law and external norms are not binding for those saved through faith; in an adjective sense, it describes an idea, writing, or group exhibiting an attitude of rejection toward the authority of traditional laws.
• Apologetics — A branch of systematic theology concerned with the rational defense and logical justification of religious dogmas against objections, criticisms, or attacks from other religions or skeptical philosophical systems. Historically, it represents the discipline utilizing dialectical tools to demonstrate the harmony between divine revelation and human reason.
• Auto-da-fe — A solemn public ceremony organized by the Inquisition, especially in Spain and Portugal between the 15th and 19th centuries, during which sentences pronounced against heretics or those accused of religious offenses were proclaimed and executed. Although the term strictly refers to the proclamation of faith and the verdict, it has become synonymous in common parlance with the burning at the stake of convicts or books deemed subversive.
• Auto-da-fe — A literary and graphic variant for the term autodafe, derived directly from the French pronunciation and spelling; a solemn public ceremony organized in the past by the Inquisition tribunal for proclaiming and executing sentences against heretics, often concluding with the burning at the stake of convicts or writings deemed subversive.
• Babism — Bábism; a messianic religious and reform movement that arose in Persia (Iran) in the mid-19th century (1844), founded by Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad of Shiraz, known as the Báb (The Gate); this doctrine preached social equality, women's rights, the abolition of strict Islamic laws, and formed the spiritual foundation from which the Bahá'í Faith later developed.
• Baha'i — An adherent of or a term referring to the Bahá'í Faith, an independent universal monotheistic religion founded in the 19th century in Persia by Bahá'u'lláh. Its core teachings promote the fundamental unity of God, the unified divine origin of all major world religions, and the essential unity of all humanity, actively advocating for the elimination of prejudice, racism, or nationalism.