INTER RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN THE PRESENT WORLD CONTEXT
Keywords:
INTER RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, pastoral magisterium, Present World ContextAbstract
I only want to offer some general reflections on preliminary questions which may be of some use for situating and assessing the importance of Inter-Religious Dialogue (lRD) especially for the European mind. In a first remark (1) I want to underline the overriding importance and strategical role of IRD at the present moment of the general evolution of the global system. From this flows (2) a short reflection on the - what we may call- "dialogical nature" of religion. Further (3) - from my Indian experience - I wanted to stress the primacy of the lived dialogue over preconceived theories about dialogue and its openings. From this also follows (4) a recognition of the appropriateness of classical categories like exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism and of the problematic of dogmas and doctrines in IRD (5). But this cannot (6) dim and water down a sort of inescapable decisiveness and uniqueness challenging the IRD. Finally (7) I want to close my response with some remarks concerning the question of absoluteness.
References
ration Global Ethic" of the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1993,
In: Studies in interreligious dialogue 3. 101-113.
Tischner, Jozel, 1993: Glaube in dusteren Zeit en. in: Hiinermsnn, Peter (ed.),
: Das neue Europa. Herausterderunaen fur Kirche und Theologie. Freiburg/Basel/Wien. 111·127 (Quaestiones disputatae 144).
Levinas, Iotelit st Thomist, Books, London 1980. 104.
The End of Dialogue", in: D'Colta, Gavin (ed.), 1990: Christian Uniqueness
Reconsidered. The Myth of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions, NY, 174-191,176.
Pler'" Aloysius 1993: Three Inadequacies.in the .Social Encyclicals, in: VJTR 67, 73·94. 94.
Amaladoss, Michael. 1992: "The One and the Many: Reality and Manifestation. The Search for the Ultimate' in the Indian Tradition". in Indian Theologicall Studies 29.310.
