Fragile identities
Subtitle: towards a theology of interreligious hospitality
By: Marianne Moyaert ; [translated by Henry Jansen]
Series: Currents of encounter -- v. 39; Currents of encounter -- v. 39.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789042032798; 9789042032804
Subjects: Religions; Dialogue; Religious aspects; Religious pluralism; Relations
Description: Can one maintain one's religious identity without closing oneself from the other? In general, Christian reflection on interreligious dialogue begins with a theological reflection on religious plurality that assumes that one cannot engage seriously in interreligious dialogue without a sound theology of religions. In this book, Marianne Moyaert critically assesses the various models for a Christian theology of religions (exclusivism, inclusivism, pluralism, particularism) by asking how these models relate to the dialogical tension between openness and identity. She argues that we need to overcome the classical theological approach of religious plurality and move in the direction of a theological hermeneutics of interreligious hospitality. To that end she turns to Paul Ricoeur, whose philosophical and hermeneutical insights can give a new turn to the discussion of the criteria, possibilities, and particularly the limits of interreligious dialogue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The theory of religions; title: The theology of religions and the tension between openness and closedness; title: A critique of the pluralist model of interreligious dialogue; title: The cultural-linguistic theory, postliberalism, and religious incommensurability; title: The end of dialogue?; title: Interreligious dialogue and hermeneutical openness; title: Testimony and openness : a theological perspective.