J. R. Hustwit

Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739187395
• Artikelnr.: 41208518

Autorenporträt

J. R. Hustwit is assistant professor and chair of the Religion and Philosophy Department at Methodist University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Reclaiming the Religions
A Plea for Content
A Plea for Contention
The Hermeneutical Straddle
Chapter 2: Mixed Transmission: Three Core Insights of Hermeneutics
Hybrid Experience
Communal Stability
Epistemic Alienation
Chapter 3: Agents of Comprehension
What is Dialogue?
What is Understanding?
Agency and critical Reason
Chapter 4: The Worry of Incommensurability
The Gammar of a Life
Three Orders of Difference
Phronesis: A Solution Based in Contingency
From Genuine Commensuration to Genuine Controversy
Chapter 5: Truth Beyond the Pale
Mysteriosophy
Internalism
Critical Realism
Reticent Realism
Fear of Ontological Commitment
Chapter 6: Reconstructing Plurality
Hermeneutics as Meta-narrative
The Disruption of Différance
The Logical Status of Fallibilist Hermeneutics
A Way Forward: Constructive Postmodernism
Dialogue and Homogeneity
The Hermeneutic Response to Deconstruction
Conclusion: Reality, Religions, and Discursive Justice