Truth and Trust: Pierangelo Sequeri's Theology of Faith

Pierangelo Sequeri, one of Italy's most prominent contemporary theologians, has devoted many of his writings to enlarging the agenda for a renewed phenomenology and anthropology of faith. As against the incapacity of modernity and postmodernity to recognize the human depth of faith as knowledge, he seeks to restore such horizons as trust, affectivity and aesthetics to our understanding of faith. Central to his thought is the inseparable unity between truth and freedom. In fundamental theology he prefers the notion of a 'trustworthy God' to the more classic debates on credibility, arguing that the primordial fiducial disposition of the self needs to be explored in order to respond to our postmodern culture. The theology of faith that emerges is explicitly Christological, focussing on the unique relationship of Jesus to his abba- Father, which indeed offers a paradigm for our Christian faith.