Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how «having faith» has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of «participating knowing,» «paradigmatic imagination,» and personal transformation where it belongs as a «form of life,» shaped by encounter with Jesus Christ and worked out through the Eucharistic community. This is shown to have been the typical understanding of faith...