In so far as we speak of judging and pronouncing a verdict on an action, this principle requires that the agent should be judged only in terms of his intention and con viction, or of his foith not in the sense in which Christ requires faith in objective truth (so that the judgement passed on a person of bad faith, ie on one whose conviction is bad in its content, must also be negative, in keeping with this evil content), but in the sense of loyalty to one's conviction (in so far as a person, in his action, remains true to his conviction), ie in the sense of formal, subjective loyalty, which is alone in keeping with duty.