Wilfred Cantwell Smith is Professor Emeritus of the Comparative History of Religion at Harvard and was also Chairman of the Study of Religion there. His academic career has taken him from Lahore, India, through Montreal to Harvard. He has published many academic texts as well as journal articles, and has been on the editorial board of seven scholarly journals in the UK and overseas.

• The Buddhist instance - faith as atheist?; the Islamic instance - faith as theocentric; a Hindu contribution - Sraddha; "Credo" and the Roman Catholic church - baptism, St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican I, the 20th century, Varia; the English word "believe"; conclusion - faith as generically human, belief and understanding, the intellectual dimension of faith.