A Metaphysical Foundation for Religious Thinking in Public? On Sharing Reason with Afro-protestant Thought
This article examines metaphysics as a method for religious thinking in public. Such a method invites criticism because 1) no one institution or population group can determine how well others use reason and 2) religious justifications for optimal reason-sharing emanate from privileged institutions....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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International journal of public theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 439-464 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society FA Theology FD Contextual theology KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
revisionist metaphysics
B limit-questions B Public Theology B Theological Method B Afro-Protestantism |
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| Summary: | This article examines metaphysics as a method for religious thinking in public. Such a method invites criticism because 1) no one institution or population group can determine how well others use reason and 2) religious justifications for optimal reason-sharing emanate from privileged institutions. Reason is worth using and sharing when traditions share limit-questions. On what basis had the determination – that some use and share reason better than others – seemed plausible? Some scholars base their determination on appeals to metaphysics. The first part of this article introduces public theology’s origins in American civil religious discourse. The second part examines a foundational method for public reason. These parts establish a relationship between a description of public theology and an examination of its use of reason in David Tracy’s methodological justification of metaphysics. The third part shows how Afro-protestant thought mediates public and emancipatory reason by asking whose inquiry liberates and why. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7320 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of public theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697320-20230098 |