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Document Details : Title: Trust it! Author(s): PHILLIPS, D.Z. Journal: Bijdragen Volume: 60 Issue: 4 Date: 1999 Pages: 380-392 DOI: 10.2143/BIJ.60.4.2002295 Abstract : In this article Phillips sketches the difference between a form of trust which is in fact a kind of credibility or reliability and a form of trust that could be termed ‘absolute trust’. He tries to show that one of the conditions of possibility of the reliability-form is a kind of absolute trust. Someone who would want to evaluate the trustworthiness of God, can do this only in light of criteria which make up a set of values in which an unconditional trust is placed. This criticism of certain – mostly foundationalist – ways of talking about trust in God is not, he argues, a religious, but a philosophical criticism. Although the trust placed in another person (as in love or friendship) and the trust placed in God are both to be called ‘absolute’, only in the first case our trust can be betrayed. |
