{
  "id": "crisis-of-faith.narrative",
  "term": "crisis of faith",
  "sense": "narrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A self model in which trust in its narrative ends, so the walls that narrative set from within stop holding.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "trust.reliance",
      "narrative.self-story",
      "change.process",
      "wall.range-end",
      "set.fix",
      "stop.action",
      "hold.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "walls losing their author rather than their force",
      "a self that must choose again what is its own"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1755 Lisbon earthquake prompted Voltaire's Poem on the Lisbon Disaster, which questioned the optimistic belief that all is for the best.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "crisis-of-confidence.collapse",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "confidence is a read of reach; faith is trust in the story that sets the walls"
    },
    {
      "id": "despair.state",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "despair reads every window closed; a crisis of faith reads the old walls as unfounded"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "crises of faith",
    "crisis of faith"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-faith.narrative"
}