RT Article
T1 Faith and Trust
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 77
IS 2
SP 141
OP 158
A1 McCraw, Benjamin 1984-
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1559175133
AB This paper begins with the oft-repeated claim that having (religious) faith involves trust in God. Taking this platitude seriously requires at least two philosophical tasks. First, one must address the relevant notion of 'trust' guiding the platitude. I offer a sketch of epistemic trust: arguing that epistemic trust involves several components: acceptance, communication, dependence, and confidence. The first duo concerns the epistemic element of epistemic trust and the second part delimit the fiducial aspect to epistemic trust. Second, one must also examine what differentiates faith qua trust. I argue that we should not distinguish faith from trust merely by believing religious propositions but by the attitudes they express. In particular, the attitude of faith is more deeply entrenched and central to one's noetic structure than trust simpliciter. The paper ends by arguing that the account proposed insofar as it accommodates and explains certain 'faith desiderata'. We can thus give content to the 'faith is a kind of trust' platitude with a model of trust on hand while showing how that model confirms and explains important features of faith.
K1 Confidence
K1 Dependence
K1 EPISTEMIC logic
K1 Faith
K1 Philosophy
K1 Religion : Philosophy
K1 Trust
DO 10.1007/s11153-014-9481-2