ABSTRACT
This chapter makes a positive case for normative doxasticism. The chapter begins by identifying a mismatch between nondoxastic theories and the attitudes that speakers communicate when they express their faith, which we call the problem of sincere endorsement. Second, it is argued that without the connection between faith and belief posited by normative doxasticism, the normal expression of faith commitments in religious discourse will be rendered prima-facie bullshitting. The discussion then proceeds to expand on the pluralist, true grit analysis of propositional faith, with particular focus on the resistance constraint. It is proposed that faith must have a specific variety of resistance which we call resoluteness. The chapter concludes by identifying a further problem for nondoxasticism: that acceptance lacks the kind of resoluteness needed for faith.
