Claudia Welz explores the meaning and forms, the potential and the limits of trust as a phenomenon and a concept. She discusses biblical, poetical, theological and philosophical texts in the light of current interdisciplinary debates, focusing on trials that put trust to the test.

Claudia Welz explores the meaning and forms, the potential, the limits of trust as a phenomenon and a concept. She discusses biblical, poetical, theological and philosophical texts in the light of current interdisciplinary debates, focusing on trials that put trust to the test. Comparing religious approaches to trust (Luther, Kierkegaard, Rosenzweig, Levinas, Benyoëtz) with prominent approaches from developmental psychology (Erikson, Rochat), neuroscience (Kosfeld, Zak), sociology (Luhmann, Giddens), and philosophy (Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Løgstrup, Austin, Wittgenstein etc), she distinguishes between trustful faith in God, inter-human trust, and the everyday certainties on which we rely in orienting ourselves in our world.

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Born 1974; studied theology and philosophy in Tübingen, Jerusalem, Munich and Heidelberg; PhD and habilitation at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich; since 2010 Professor of Systematic Theology with special responsibilities in Ethics and Philosophy and Religion, and since 2014 Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.