Interreligious hermeneutics and the pursuit of truth / J.R. Hustwit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hustwit, J. R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Truth--Religious aspects.

Religions.

Physical Description:

xi, 131 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

Philosophical hermeneutics provides a model of interreligious dialogue that acknowledges the relativity of meaning in relation to a mind-independent reality. The hermeneutical tension between the conflict of interpretations and the manifold text directly parallels the tension between the diversity of belief and the ultimacy of the sacred. By placing philosophers like Gadamer, Ricoeur, Peirce, and Whitehead in conversation, J. R. Hustwit describes religious truth claims as co-constituted by the planes of linguistic convention and uninterpreted otherness. Only when we recognize that religious claims emerge from a dalliance back and forth across the limits of the understanding can we appreciate the engagement between religions. In terms of dialogue, Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Pursuit of Truth treats religious truth claims as tentative hypotheses, but hypotheses chat are frequently commensurable and rationally contestable. Interreligious dialogue goes beyond facilitating bonhomie or negotiating tolerance; dialogue can and should be a disciplined space for rationally adjudicating claims about what lies beyond the limits of human understanding. Scholars and students of continental philosophy (especially hermeneutics) and religious diversity will benefit from Hustwit's carefully constructed discussion of interreligious dialogue. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Re-claiming the Religions 1

2 Mixed Transmissions: Three Core Insights of Hermeneutics 11

3 Agents of Comprehension 31

4 The Worry of Incommensurability 53

5 Truth beyond the Pale 75

6 Reconstructing Pluralism 99.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739187388

0739187384

0739187392

9780739187395

OCLC:

868199596