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Interfaith theology for the twenty-first century: an artefact for faith in a global era
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Lovat, Terence
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education
Description
Dietrich Bonhoeffer proffered that God would be Lord of the World but that the various denominations of religion had each turned God into their local branch manager. The implication of his critique was that faith is not well served by denominational religious forms that tend to reduce conceptions of God to serve their own institutional purposes. In similar vein, John Hick spoke of God as 'trans-categorial', beyond being able to be categorized, but that religious denominations had in fact categorized God to serve their own institutional claims and hence bolster their own power. While this was viable in an era in which most people came to know little of the world beyond their own denominational borders, Hick believed that a globalized era of mass communication and fast transport made it less plausible that reduced and parochial images of God, and their allied theologies, could survive. Hick employed a Kantian reality thesis to show that the only credible theology for the modem era was one that addressed its multiple religious expressions, including those many and varied conceptions of God that characterize the reality that modern people confront. Far from it being a threat to faith, Hick conceived of this interfaith theology as providing the opportunity for modern people to come to know God in his (sic) true form, namely as the trans-categorial God, veritably Bonhoeffer's 'Lord of the World'.
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Advances in Sociology Research, Volume 7 p. 189-197
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https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=14721
Date
2010
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers
Keyword(s)
interfaith theology;  Dietrich Bonhoeffer;  Kantian reality thesis;  Lord of the World
Resource Type
book chapter
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929630
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ISBN:9781613241707
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