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Editor's Introduction |
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Building Trust
by Ryan P. Cumming
The authors in this issue take up the subject of trust and Martin Marty’s proposal for grounding a culture of trust in honest, self-critical, and empathetic conversation between subcultures. Collectively, the articles here represent an attempt to “keep the conversation going,” as Marty desires. |
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Book Reviews/Conversation |
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Response to Building Cultures of Trust, by Martin E. Marty
by Robert P. Crease
Do we trust this book? What an odd question! Books provide information, make arguments, tell stories. We evaluate them by verifying, assessing, and appraising -- not trusting! We would be gullible to trust a book, right?
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Science and Religion as Conversation toward a Common Good: The Recent Work of Martin Marty
by John McCarthy
... this is not a book about science and religion like most of the works that approach this field. It is a book about enhancing cultures of trust as a means to incrementally making a qualitatively better world, understood as a world in which deliberation and actions guided by a sense of the common good prevail to the extent possible. |
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Virtually There: Martin Marty, Cyberspace, and Cultures of Trust in the 21st Century
by Deanna A. Thompson
Reading Martin Marty’s Building Cultures of Trust ... has only intensified my conviction that we all need to heed Marty’s call to join in creating cultures of trust in a society suffering from hyper-individualism, disconnection, and the collapse of civic engagement. |
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Religionists versus Scientists: Why We Need to Build Cultures of Trust
by Shayla C. Nunnally
To a certain extent, this is where I feel that scientists and religionists have not exclusively spoken past one another, but rather, have been actively engaged in very public discourses—the discourses surrounding explanations for human difference and the construction of race. More specifically, via science and religion we see intimate epistemological discourses that draw upon knowledges relative to both cultures to prove, support, and advocate on behalf of race, inequality, and ultimately, injustices. |
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The Moral Weight of Trust
by D.M. Yeager
Christian ethicists have been slow to notice the rich and expanding discussion of trust (and trustworthiness, distrust, and betrayals of trust) that is now underway among philosophers, social and organizational theorists, and those who, at the practical level, are trying to improve institutional process and cooperative interaction. |
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Trust: A Selected Bibliography
compiled by D.M. Yeager
For those who are interested in the subject of trust, Yeager has also prepared a helpful bibliography of important texts on the topic.
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Of What Moral Value Is Vulnerability in the Conduct of Asymmetric Warfare?
by Stewart W. Herman
Luther commends vulnerability as both inevitable and valuable in the human condition but offers no explicit indication of how much is appropriate in the work of a soldier. Still, he opens up two breathtaking if undeveloped moral vistas. He first sketches the bold confidence that combatants might bring to their task, thereby suggesting they might adopt a disinterested attitude towards the protection of Creation. Second, he commends a generous love of enemy, even to the point of taking on vulnerability; such a love might find the prospect of exterminating enemies to be contrary to God’s will. |
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Review: James H. Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree
by Benjamin Taylor
In James Cone’s latest book The Cross and The Lynching Tree, the revered theologian and social critic explores the paradoxical relationship between Jesus’ death on the cross and the atrocious history of the lynchings of blacks by Southern whites, starting in the post-bellum South and leading up to the first decades of the twentieth century.
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