The fragility of faith: Toward a critique of reformed epistemology: David Wisdo

Religious Studies 24 (3):365-374 (1988)
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Abstract

Human thought is unable to acknowledge the reality of affliction. To acknowledge affliction means saying to oneself: I may lose at any moment, through the play of circumstances over which I have no control, anything whatsoever I possess, including those things which are so intimately mine that I consider them as being myself. There is nothing that I might not lose

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