crisis of faith · narrative
Ask PrometheusA self model in which trust in its narrative ends, so the walls that narrative set from within stop holding.
Crisis of faith (noun) means: A self model in which trust in its narrative ends, so the walls that narrative set from within stop holding. It emerges from self-model, trust, narrative, change: The narrative was acted on without checking; once checked and doubted, the walls it set lose their reason, and the self must set them again or drift. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake prompted Voltaire's Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, which questioned the optimistic belief that all is for the best. history
Emergence
through: The narrative was acted on without checking; once checked and doubted, the walls it set lose their reason, and the self must set them again or drift.
- walls losing their author rather than their force
- a self that must choose again what is its own
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (500 steps)
- crisis of faithL19
- self-modelL14
- trustL14
- narrativeL18
- changeL1
- wallL8
- setL9
- stopL15
- motionL2
- boundaryL2
- changeL1
- interactionL2
- interactingL4
- limitL14
- holdL13
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | crisis-of-confidence.collapse | confidence is a read of reach; faith is trust in the story that sets the walls |
| contrasts-with | despair.state | despair reads every window closed; a crisis of faith reads the old walls as unfounded |