Trust, Endangerment, and Divine Vulnerability: An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Niklas Luhmann and K.E. Løgstrup. Issue 4 (4th December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Christoffersen, Mikkel Gabriel
• Is Part Of: Dialog. Volume 56:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 391
• Page End: 401
• Publication Date: 2017-12-04
• Subjects: faith -- trust -- risk -- Løgstrup -- Luhmann -- incarnation; Theology -- Periodicals; 230.41
• DOI: 10.1111/dial.12359
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0012-2033

Abstract

Abstract: 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.