RT Article
T1 Interfaith Chaplaincy as Interpretive Hospitality
JF Religions
VO 10
IS 3
SP 1
OP 14
A1 Youngblood, Peter Ward
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1671317629
AB Hospital chaplaincy must reconcile competing epistemologies of health and salvation (Christian, clinical, holistic, etc.), but when done in interfaith situations this task becomes more difficult. As current models of spiritual care are insufficient, this paper proposes a paradigm based on Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of translation, as adapted for comparative theology by Marianne Moyaert. In particular, it looks at his idea of linguistic hospitality as a way to structure relations, spiritual assessments, and pastoral interventions in interfaith chaplaincy without reducing the unique strangeness of "the Other". Furthermore, a practical, performative (ritual) hospitality can overcome the epistemological and soteriological obstacles that have frustrated systematic theologies of religion.
K1 Ricoeur
K1 Chaplaincy
K1 Comparative Theology
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 Interfaith
K1 Interreligious Dialogue
DO 10.3390/rel10030226