Book contents
- Theological Determinism
- Theological Determinism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Theological Determinism and Creation
- Chapter 2 Am I Here by Accident?
- Chapter 3 You Searched Me and Knew Me
- Chapter 4 Fatalism and Some Varieties of Contrastive Explanation
- Chapter 5 Divine Transcendence
- Chapter 6 The Incompatibility of Universal, Determinate Divine Action with Human Free Will
- Chapter 7 Natural Compatibilists Should Be Theological Compatibilists
- Chapter 8 An Argument for Theological Incompatibilism
- Chapter 9 Human Freedom and the Inevitability of Sin
- Chapter 10 Hard Theological Determinism and Divine Forgiveness Are Incompatible
- Chapter 11 Moral Luck, Free Will Theodicies, and Theological Determinism
- Chapter 12 Divine Determinism and Gratitude for Sins
- Chapter 13 The Problem of Trust
- Chapter 14 Toward a Reactive Attitudes Theodicy
- Chapter 15 Christ in Gethsemane
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 13 - The Problem of Trust
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2022
- Theological Determinism
- Theological Determinism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Theological Determinism and Creation
- Chapter 2 Am I Here by Accident?
- Chapter 3 You Searched Me and Knew Me
- Chapter 4 Fatalism and Some Varieties of Contrastive Explanation
- Chapter 5 Divine Transcendence
- Chapter 6 The Incompatibility of Universal, Determinate Divine Action with Human Free Will
- Chapter 7 Natural Compatibilists Should Be Theological Compatibilists
- Chapter 8 An Argument for Theological Incompatibilism
- Chapter 9 Human Freedom and the Inevitability of Sin
- Chapter 10 Hard Theological Determinism and Divine Forgiveness Are Incompatible
- Chapter 11 Moral Luck, Free Will Theodicies, and Theological Determinism
- Chapter 12 Divine Determinism and Gratitude for Sins
- Chapter 13 The Problem of Trust
- Chapter 14 Toward a Reactive Attitudes Theodicy
- Chapter 15 Christ in Gethsemane
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The reason the debate over divine providence has such a powerful resonance in the lives of ordinary people is that it touches deeply on their relationship with God, and in particular on the attitudes they have toward God: their trust in God, their love for God, their hope in God’s promises, and more. One way to approach the debate over divine providence is to start with an account of appropriate religious attitudes and reason about which accounts of divine providence can make sense of those attitudes. I focus on the religious attitude of trust in God. R. Zachary Manis has argued that theological determinism cannot make sense of certain types of trust in God that religious believers often do and should have: trusting God with their own salvation and the salvation of others whom they love. I argue that theological determinism can in fact make sense of these types of trust in God, drawing heavily on Kierkegaard’s idea that we ought to love others with God as the “middle term.” I go on to argue that views other than theological determinism also struggle to make sense of believers trusting God with their own salvation and the salvation of those whom they love.
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- Theological DeterminismNew Perspectives, pp. 213 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022