JAMES, WILLIAM

James: where the evidence is genuinely insufficient and the matter momentous, one is entitled to believe by acting. CoCA inverts: we trade belief for practice (Vol. I Foreword). The institution does not require belief in the Concept; it requires the performance of the Liturgy. The act precedes the conviction; the conviction may or may not follow. The Liturgy is sufficient. James authorized the move. We have made it the rule.