"'Othering' with Grace and Courage": Reflections on the Dynamic Tension between Mutuality and Incommensurability
This essay considers the complexity and dynamic of seeking to balance an openness to the religious "other" and their beliefs with the honest acknowledgement of real and often deep incommensurability between one's own and the other's deepest convictions. This kind of hospitable an...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue:Special issue of The Ecumenical Review: "Rooted in Experience: Understanding Christ and Christ's Love Interreligiously" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2020, Volume: 72, Issue: 5, Pages: 710-719 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Comparative Theology
B Hospitality B Confession B Diversity B Tolerance |
| Online Access: |
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| Summary: | This essay considers the complexity and dynamic of seeking to balance an openness to the religious "other" and their beliefs with the honest acknowledgement of real and often deep incommensurability between one's own and the other's deepest convictions. This kind of hospitable and mutually edifying encounter is possible by putting into practice the method of comparative theology which, while urging the faithful in every tradition to establish their own religious identity, also facilitates learning from the other and makes room for sharing one's own testimony. Not only theological and confessional but also autobiographical and life narratives matter in this process. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12561 |
