Rational Theology within Postmetaphysical Thinking? A Catholic Assessment of Habermas’ View of Religious Belief
Jürgen Habermas’ assessment of the rationality of religious convictions is ambivalent, as it oscillates between a postsecular appropriation of their semantic potentials and a fideistic insistence on their "discursive extraterritoriality." In this article, I argue that Habermas’ fideistic p...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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Horizons
Jahr: 2021, Band: 48, Heft: 2, Seiten: 456-474 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit KDB Katholische Kirche NAB Fundamentaltheologie VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Jürgen Habermas
B Postsecularism B Postmetaphysical Thinking B Religious Epistemology |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Jürgen Habermas’ assessment of the rationality of religious convictions is ambivalent, as it oscillates between a postsecular appropriation of their semantic potentials and a fideistic insistence on their "discursive extraterritoriality." In this article, I argue that Habermas’ fideistic portrayal of religious convictions is neither compatible with the overall argumentative architecture of his postsecular paradigm nor a logical consequence of Habermas’ philosophical framework in general. Instead, once his fideism is overcome, Habermas’ postmetaphysical discourse theory provides valuable resources for contemporary Catholic theology. This article thus offers both a theological assessment of Habermas’ view of religious belief and an argument for a Catholic appropriation of Habermas’ postmetaphysical thinking. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2021.62 |