The Fideistic Model The Fideistic Model of faith is very different in its approach than both the Traditional and Prudential Models. The Fideistic Model relies solely on faith and does not believe that reason can be applied. The word fideism comes from the Latin word fides, which means faith and this can be literally translated into faith-ism. The main point in this argument is that faith and reason do not go hand in hand but are in fact conflicting to one another. There are two main arguments to the Fideistic Model, the theological and the skeptical. The sceptical argument’s main idea is “faith does not need to justify itself to reason because it can be shown that reason itself is limited in its ability to discover the truth”. In other words the sceptic argument criticizes reason because in reason one could not possible conceive such a divine being therefore one can only truly rely on faith. David Hume is known for being a sceptic. He believed the future was uncertain and although many things have proven to continue the same or with the same results, he argues that we cannot use reason alone. The second argument in the Fideistic Model is the theological argument. It has two aspects the taint of sin and the glory of a theistic God. Kierkegaard is an important writer on the Fideism. Kierkegaard challenged that sin had greatly affected human reason and therefore this was not a dependable way to prove God’s existence. He argued that there can never be absolute certainty because there can be misinterpretations or an error in the reasoning used. Faith he believed was absolute and could not be reached through reason. This belief brings us to our second aspect, the glory of a theistic God. If we believe that God is a being greater than we can conceive how then ...