Trust, Endangerment and Divine Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Niklas Luhmann and K.E. Løgstrup

TY - JOUR

T1 - Trust, Endangerment and Divine Vulnerability

T2 - An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Niklas Luhmann and K.E. Løgstrup

AU - Christoffersen, Mikkel Gabriel

PY - 2017/12

Y1 - 2017/12

N2 - Faith is trusting God in the midst of endangerment. Yet, human experience of excessive suffering has challenged any spontaneous trust in God. In this article, I reconsider the idea of faith as trust in God, adding an emphasis on the divine vulnerability in the incarnation. I develop a more complex view of trust inspired by the Danish philosopher of religion K.E. Løgstrup and the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. I use this view of trust to reconsider the relationship between trust and faith in the God of incarnation.

AB - Faith is trusting God in the midst of endangerment. Yet, human experience of excessive suffering has challenged any spontaneous trust in God. In this article, I reconsider the idea of faith as trust in God, adding an emphasis on the divine vulnerability in the incarnation. I develop a more complex view of trust inspired by the Danish philosopher of religion K.E. Løgstrup and the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. I use this view of trust to reconsider the relationship between trust and faith in the God of incarnation.

U2 - 10.1111/dial.12359

DO - 10.1111/dial.12359

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0012-2033

VL - 56

SP - 391

EP - 401

JO - Dialog

JF - Dialog

IS - 4

ER -