Table of Contents
This table of contents is currently limited to the first chapter, the Introduction. It includes the headings of the chapters of the entire work and includes some of those whose thought about trust is considered.
Preface
1. Imagining the Route: IntroductionTwo Images: Railroad, and Hands
Trust in God as Central in Theism
Path, Goal, Method, and Context
The Divide, from the Trust Side
The Divide, from the God Side
Crossing the Divide
Categorical Conviction and Hypothetical Assumption
A Three-Word Split: Faith, Trust, Belief
Citation and Argument
Vignettes of Various Trustings
Power
Shrinking, Nurse and Mother
Help and My Heart: Cardiovascular Surgeon
Intimacy
After Betrayal
Us and Them . . . Reconciling
From Under: the Poor
In Government We Trust
In God We Trust
In the Father I Trust: from the Garden and the Cross
Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22)
Bishops
A Sampler of Others' Approaches to Understanding Trust
Trusting as Subjecting to Superior or Inferior Power: Annette Baier
Trusting as Engaging in Interpersonal Intimacy: Carolyn Gratton
Trusting as Believing-That
Trusting as Acting-on-the-Assumption-That: Richard Swinburne
Trusting in Social Contracts
Content of the Chapters
Chapter 1, Imagining the Route: Introduction
Chapter 2, Four Dimensions of Trust
Chapter 3, Related Approaches, and the Core of Trusting
Chapter 4, Analogy of Trusting
Chapter 5, Trusting Well
Chapter 6, Trust and Epistemology
Chapter 7, Two Ontological Models, and Chapter 8, Ontological Models, Security Trusting, Openness Trusting, and Mediation
Chapters 9 and 10, Arguments Regarding Trusting and God
Chapter 11, Religious Faith and Trust
Chapter 12, Conclusion
A Note on Terminology and Usages
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"Anyone interested in the concept of trust and its role in human relationships, religious experiences, and the nature of knowledge, among other related topics, cannot afford to ignore Joseph Godfrey's extensive study. This book will have wide appeal, not only in the areas of phenomenology and existentialism, but also in theology, religious studies, and literature."
—Brendan Sweetman, Rockhurst University
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Excerpts
The final three paragraphs:
"This is a study in philosophy of religion insofar as it employs concepts of philosophy in order to pose questions and make suggestions to religion, to theistic religion, and to Christian religion. It does this after the manner in which philosophy of science poses questions and makes suggestions to natural and social sciences. Those who reflect on religion from within religious commitments may recognize here, for example, jiriki and tariki, grace and freedom, illumination and understanding. This book thereby proposes reflections for both the devout and theologians.
"But also for the nonreligious. My goal has been to accommodate two types of travelers: people of religious commitments, and people without religious commitments. If I have conducted my explorations in an illuminating way, both a person with and a person without religious commitments should be able to understand trust in new ways. The person with religious commitments should be able to recognize the ways in which trusting is connected to religious living and believing. The person without such commitments should nevertheless be able to see that human trusting can be polymorphous and that some of its forms raise telling questions about the reasonableness of fiducial attitudes and relationships, religious or not.
"And trusting directed towards words includes the words found in this book. My hope is that they have shed some light on trusting, illuminating angles of the multifarious trustings that show up in human living, human language, and human religion—in people, words, and God."
Related Texts
Lectures: Lectures and CV of Joseph Godfrey
Conceiving Trust for Philosophy of Religion
www.sju.edu/~jgodfrey/trustbook.html
Last updated December 20, 2011