English
faith
Nearest English gloss
trust placed, or faithfulness kept
What the gloss loses
Modern English often hears a creed, or a mood. The older English still remembered a pledge you could break.
Etymology
From Latin fides via Old French feid. Related to fidelity and federal. words of pledge, not of private feeling.
History
This Guide uses faith as a historical practice of trust where the ending has not arrived. It is not a synonym for pistis, and it is not a proof that events were destined.
What can be entrusted when certainty is absent?