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dc.contributor.authorStigall, Jason
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-29T08:30:10Z
dc.date.available2022-08-29T08:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-25
dc.identifier280603016
dc.identifier515e6bcb-4139-4f07-b03d-90c85d88fb8b
dc.identifier000844413000001
dc.identifier85141955125
dc.identifier.citationStigall , J 2022 , ' Conceptualizing divine trust ' , Religious Studies , vol. FirstView . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412522000427en
dc.identifier.issn0034-4125
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/25903
dc.description.abstractDoes God trust human persons? Very little in philosophy of religion has been written about God's trust, which seems striking for two joint considerations. First, many of the Abrahamic faith traditions posit that union and close personal relationship with God is the telos of human life. Second, trust seems to be an essential element in ideal, close relationships between persons. While there is much in the faith literature that emphasizes the role of trust on the human side of the divine–human relationship, there is very little on divine trust. To fill this lacuna, this article addresses the conceptual issue of how divine trust could be understood within the Abrahamic faith traditions (particularly in Christianity and Judaism). I begin by examining whether an account of divine trust can be developed alongside divine attributes like divine foreknowledge. After identifying some plausible conditions of trust within the philosophical literature, I present a couple of trust scenarios as a means of demonstrating that divine trust is not only conceptually plausible (i.e. compatible with divine foreknowledge), but that divine trust is best construed as a particular trust type – therapeutic trust. That is, I argue that divine trust aims at inspiring humanity's trustworthiness.
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dc.format.extent372402
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofReligious Studiesen
dc.subjectDivine trusten
dc.subjectTherapeutic trusten
dc.subjectRelianceen
dc.subjectPersonal relationshipsen
dc.subjectBR Christianityen
dc.subjectBM Judaismen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectNISen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBRen
dc.subject.lccBMen
dc.titleConceptualizing divine trusten
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0034412522000427
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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