Learning to Trust in Freedom

by Burrell, David B.

• ISBN13: 9781589661950
• ISBN10: 1589661958
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-03
• Publisher: Univ of Scranton Pr

Summary

True religious faith cannot be confirmed by any external proofs. Rather, it is founded on a basic act of trustand the common root of that trust, for Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, is a belief in the divine creation of the universe. But withLearning to Trust in Freedom, David B. Burrell asks the provocative question: How do we reach that belief, and what is it about the universe thatcouldpossibly testify to its divine origins? Even St. Augustine, he points out, could only find faith after a harrowing journey through the lures of desireand 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.

Author Biography

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	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Freedom as Response	p. xv
Learning from Traditions to Overcome the Pastness of the Past: From Modernity to Postmodernity	p. 1
Contrasting Acting as Initiating with Acting as Responding: A Classical View of Will	p. 11
Creation and Cosmic Trust in Abrahamic Faith Traditions	p. 19
Philosophical Presumptions and Strategies Clarified by Theology	p. 31
How Narrative Contextualizes and Articulates Freedom: Augustine and Etty Hillesum	p. 45
Beyond Optimism to Hope: John of the Cross and Edith Stein Responding to Charles Taylor	p. 59
Notes	p. 79
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