Description:

• In the light of the crisis and opportunity of the global pandemic, this new interdisciplinary volume attempts to articulate Franciscan approaches to trust. With some variations, trust is defined as a willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another person, based on the expectation that that person
  will perform an action important to us, regardless of our ability to monitor or compel that action. Following the teaching and footsteps of Jesus Christ, Francis of Assisi said of his brothers, “for love of Him [Jesus Christ], they must make themselves vulnerable to their enemies.” This ethic of vulnerability fosters a culture of trust, which, although fragile and itself vulnerable to injury, may be renewed as often as the decision to extend trust is made.

  Themes addressed include:
  trust in Francis’s theological style
  trust in Franciscan spiritual literature
• trust in Franciscan communities
  trust, faith, and love in Franciscan philosophy
  trust in economic relationships
  trust-building with marginalized groups
  trust, money, and fraternity in macroeconomics
  trust and the gut-brain pathway
  trust and COVID-19.
  

edited by Aaron Gies

ISBN: 978-1-57659-474-2

265 pages