1st Edition

Philosophical Perspectives on Religious Diversity Bivalent Truth, Tolerance and Personhood

Edited By Dirk-Martin Grube, Walter Van Herck Copyright 2018
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing the question of what kind of theoretical foundations are required if we wish to have a constructive attitude towards different religions, this book scrutinizes aspects of the human condition, personhood and notions of (exclusive) truth and tolerance. In the book, Wolterstorff suggests that persons have hermeneutic and related competences that account for their special dignity, and... Read more

Introduction  1. Toleration, justice, and dignity. Lecture on the occasion of the inauguration as professor of Dirk-Martin Grube, Free University of Amsterdam, September 24, 2015  2. Conflations and gaps. A response to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s ‘toleration, justice, and dignity’  3. Tolerant because Christianity itself is a hybrid tradition: a response to Nicholas Wolterstorff’s ‘Toleration, Justice and Dignity’  4. Uncertain musings about the state of the world and religion’s contribution  5. Tolerance and religious belief: a response to Joseph Margolis  6. ‘What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?’ or ‘What’s a feminist practical theologian doing amongst a bunch of distinguished philosophers?’ A riff on Professor Joe Margolis’ paper  7. Justified religious difference: a constructive approach to religious diversity  8. An epistemic argument for tolerance  9. Grube on justified religious difference  10. Response to Dirk-Martin Grube  11. What about unjustified religious difference? Response paper to Dirk-Martin Grube’s ‘justified religious difference’  12. A theological alternative to Grube’s notion of ‘justified religious difference’  13. Concluding Remarks – Reply to the respondents to ‘Justified religious difference: A constructive approach to religious diversity’

Biography

Dirk-Martin Grube holds the chair in Religious Diversity and the Epistemology of Theology/Religion at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.



Walter Van Herck is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology.