In the first chapter, the essentialist community was described, participation in which was the necessary activity of knowledge.
The community in which the believer participates by his affirmation of faith is the existential counterpart of the essentialist human community of the first chapter. This existentialist community is not necessary, but contingent upon the revelation; participation in it is not the necessary consequence of essentialist knowledge, but the consequence of the affirmation of faith, which is not a necessary deduction of reason, nor a necessary consequence of existence, as will be shown.
The community in which the believer participates by his affirmation of faith is the existential counterpart of the essentialist human community of the first chapter. This existentialist community is not necessary, but contingent upon the revelation; participation in it is not the necessary consequence of essentialist knowledge, but the consequence of the affirmation of faith, which is not a necessary deduction of reason, nor a necessary consequence of existence, as will be shown.
