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Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions
True religious faith cannot be confirmed by any external proofs. Rather, it is founded on a basic act of trust—and the common root of that trust, for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, is a belief in the divine creation of the universe. But with Learning to Trust in Freedom, David B. Burrell asks the provocative question: How do we reach that belief, and what is it about the universe that could possibly testify to its divine origins? Even St. Augustine, he points out, could only find faith after a harrowing journey through the lures of desire—and it is that very desire that Burrell seizes on as a tool with which to explore the origin and purpose of the world. Delving deep into the intertwinings of desire and faith, and drawing on St. John of the Cross, Edith Stein, and Charles Taylor, Burrell offers a new understanding of free will, trust, and perception.

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Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions
True religious faith cannot be confirmed by any external proofs. Rather, it is founded on a basic act of trust—and the common root of that trust, for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, is a belief in the divine creation of the universe. But with Learning to Trust in Freedom, David B. Burrell asks the provocative question: How do we reach that belief, and what is it about the universe that could possibly testify to its divine origins? Even St. Augustine, he points out, could only find faith after a harrowing journey through the lures of desire—and it is that very desire that Burrell seizes on as a tool with which to explore the origin and purpose of the world. Delving deep into the intertwinings of desire and faith, and drawing on St. John of the Cross, Edith Stein, and Charles Taylor, Burrell offers a new understanding of free will, trust, and perception.

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Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions

Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions

by David B. Burrell C.S.C.
Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions

Learning to Trust in Freedom: Signs from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions

by David B. Burrell C.S.C.

Overview

True religious faith cannot be confirmed by any external proofs. Rather, it is founded on a basic act of trust—and the common root of that trust, for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, is a belief in the divine creation of the universe. But with Learning to Trust in Freedom, David B. Burrell asks the provocative question: How do we reach that belief, and what is it about the universe that could possibly testify to its divine origins? Even St. Augustine, he points out, could only find faith after a harrowing journey through the lures of desire—and it is that very desire that Burrell seizes on as a tool with which to explore the origin and purpose of the world. Delving deep into the intertwinings of desire and faith, and drawing on St. John of the Cross, Edith Stein, and Charles Taylor, Burrell offers a new understanding of free will, trust, and perception.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781589661950
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Publication date: 05/03/2010
Pages: 93
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

David B. Burrell, C.S.C., is the Hesburgh Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently professor of ethics and development at Uganda Martyrs University in Nkozi, Uganda.

Table of Contents

Preface: Time and Freedom vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Freedom as Response xv

1 Learning from Traditions to Overcome the Pastness of the Past: From Modernity to Postmodernity 1

2 Contrasting Acting as Initiating with Acting as Responding: A Classical View of Will 11

3 Creation and Cosmic Trust in Abrahamic Faith Traditions 19

4 Philosophical Presumptions and Strategies Clarified by Theology 31

5 How Narrative Contextualizes and Articulates Freedom: Augustine and Etty Hillesum 45

6 Beyond Optimism to Hope: John of the Cross and Edith Stein Responding to Charles Taylor 59

Notes 79

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