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Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth
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2014
Summary
Philosophical hermeneutics provides a model of interreligious dialogue that acknowledges the interpretive variability of truth claims while maintaining their relation to a preinterpretive reality. The dialectic and tensive structure of philosophical hermeneutics directly parallels the tension between the diversity of belief and the ultimacy of the sacred. By placing philosophers like Gadamer, Ricoeur, Peirce, and Whitehead in conversation, J. R. Hustwit describes religious truth claims as coconstituted by the planes of linguistic convention and uninterpreted otherness. Only when we recognize that religious claims emerge from a dalliance back and forth across the limits of the understanding can we appreciate the engagement between religions. In terms of dialogue, this approach treats religious truth claims as tentative hypotheses, but hypotheses that are frequently commensurable and rationally contestable. Interreligious dialogue goes beyond facilitating bonhomie or negotiating tolerance; dialogue can and should be a disciplined space for rationally adjudicating claims about what lies beyond the limits of human understanding.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8738-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8739-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
131
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Contents No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Re-claiming the Religions No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter Two: Mixed Transmissions: Three Core Insights of Hermeneutics No access Pages 11 - 30
Chapter Three: Agents of Comprehension No access Pages 31 - 52
Chapter Four: The Worry of Incommensurability No access Pages 53 - 74
Chapter Five: Truth beyond the Pale No access Pages 75 - 98
Chapter Six: Reconstructing Pluralism No access Pages 99 - 120
