Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandrism — Theologizing at the Meeting Point of Hinduism and Christianity

Exchange ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-303
Author(s):  
Jyri Komulainen
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Radical Pluralism ◽  
Existentialist Philosophy

AbstractRaimon Panikkar (b. 1918), a Catalan-born Hindu-Christian, is a prominent theorist of interreligious dialogue. This article provides an analysis of his theology of religions. On the basis of the most recent sources available, it appears that even his 'radical pluralism' cannot eschew the inherent problems characteristic of pluralistic theologies of religions.Unlike other pluralists, Panikkar does not subscribe to the Enlightenment tradition. Instead, his plea for the transformation of religions is based on an idiosyncratic 'Cosmotheandrism', which draws on both primordial religious traditions and existentialist philosophy. The prerequisites of interreligious dialogue, as outlined in his work, thus entail commitment to a particular cosmology and mode of consciousness.

Refugee migration today

Theology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. 334-346
Author(s):  
Muthuraj Swamy
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Current Context ◽  
To Come ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Constructing theological resources is a crucial task in the current context of refugee crises to support the refugees in distress as well as to encourage Christians to come forward, protect and welcome them, and persuade states to do so. One way of doing this is to bring the reality of migration to the centre of theological reflection, which can influence the way theologizing is done today. Drawing methodological insights from liberation theologies, a theology of migration will involve interpretation of the foundational beliefs and theological concepts in Christianity in the light of migration, emphasize an active Christian public engagement and enable the rethinking of theology of religions and interreligious dialogue as migrants bring with them multiple religious traditions, identities and worldviews.

Secularism: The Golden Lie

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Graham Ward
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Bureaucratic State ◽  
Scientific Atheism

In contemporary rhetoric, secularism, modernity, and atheism are invoked as the end of a linear narrative of historical progress, but with the anthropological insights of Bruno Latour regarding scientific atheism, Graham Ward argues that secularism and modernity are abstract, mythological concepts, a “golden lie” upon which the modern state is built (as in Plato’s Republic). Latour recognized the exclusion of the concept of “God” in scientific investigation, while at the same time scientists raised the level of “fact” to that which is absolutely true (i.e., outside of time and space). In a similar way, the demythologizing project of the Enlightenment sought to exclude religious traditions and history from the modern, secular state, but in the process, it developed a new mythology of the anti- or a-religious that began circa 1500. Instead, the basic concepts of this worldview, such as the “immanent frame,” the “buffered self,” disenchantment, and “exclusive humanism” imply their own falsehood. Even the French laicité has shifted from an antagonism toward religion to an attempted neutrality for the sake of inclusivity and the bureaucratic state.

Enhancing Dialogue Between Religious Traditions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Contributory Factor ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
Introductory Discussion ◽  
Islamic Civilization

This chapter provides an overview of Islam’s historical experiences in interreligious dialogue through highlights of its ‘golden ages’ in this particular domain of multicultural societal living within its civilization. It examines these golden ages in interreligious dialogue in three notable geo-cultural and historical settings—Muslim-ruled Spain, Chinese Islam in Ming-ruled China, and Indian Islam under Mughal rule—following an introductory discussion of Muslim exemplary treatment of non-Muslims during the rule of the first four Caliphs succeeding the Prophet Muhammad. On the basis of this discussion the author concludes that it is generally the case that interreligious dialogue and cooperation presents itself as a necessary contributory factor of the Golden Age of all religiously pluralistic societies, especially of Islamic civilization.

The Catholic Church and the Other Religious Paths: Rejecting Nothing that is True and Holy

2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Fredericks
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Catholic Church

[Catholic thinking about other religious traditions has continued to develop rapidly since the Second Vatican Council. The author discusses the impact of conciliar texts, the thought of John Paul II, the “pluralist” and “regnocentric” theologies of religion, and the practice of interreligious dialogue on Catholic views of other religious paths. The multiple issues selected for discussion reflect the controversy surrounding the declaration Dominus Iesus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.]

scholarly journals “Kristendommens absolutte status”: Religionsteologien hos Ernst Troeltsch

2014 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-161
Author(s):  
Jonas Adelin Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Ernst Troeltsch ◽  
Epistemological Relativism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

The contribution of E. Troeltsch towards a modern Protestanttheology of religions takes its point of departure in the conundrumof Christianity as (theologically) absolute and (historically) relative religion.The article describes the background for Troeltsch’s theology, his analysis of other religious traditions, and his theological reflections based on his approach informed by the ‘Religionsgeschichtliche Schule’. The article argues for a development in Troeltsch’s theology of religions from a fairly common liberal protestant hierarchical view to a much more relativistic understanding. Troeltsch’s contribution is contextualized and placed in the larger modern discussion on the relationship between Christianity as a historical phenomenon, its relation to other religious traditions, and the specific content of Christianity and its claim to truth. In conclusion, the article characterizes Troeltsch’s theology of religions as an act of balancing between a methodological or epistemological relativism and a more holistic relativism, which is the very possible dead-end of metaphysical thinking

scholarly journals THE DIALOGUE OF RELIGIONS AND ONTOLOGICAL INCOMPLETENESS Of a HuMAN Being

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
E. V Maksimova
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Global World

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of ontological incompleteness of a human being in connection with the possibility of spiritual help from religious traditions. The author shows how the unified ontological substitution of spiritual existence with virtual reality is carried out in the global world. The article investigates the potential of interreligious dialogue in search for new forms of contact with the universal anthropological risks of virtualization, individualization and alienation of man from his spiritual needs. The experience of religious interaction, features of intra-religious life of communities and modern attitude of churches to each other and to people are analyzed on the basis of Religious Studies fieldwork in Russia, in the countries of Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

scholarly journals Ramón Llull frente a la critica actual. Al dialogo interreligioso: el arte luliana como propuesta para una «Filosofía de las Religiones»

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Alexander FIDORA
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
John Hick ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
Ramon Llull ◽  
The Church ◽  
Traditional Doctrine

During the last few years several criticisms concerning the possibility of an authentic interreligious dialogue within the traditional doctrine of the Church have emerged under the title of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions. The present paper tries to show how many of the problems pointed at by the pluralistic theologians, as for instance John Hick, can be solved by Ramon Llull 's concept of apologetics without abandoning the universal truth-claims that characterize each religion. To this end, first the actual criticisms concerning the interreligious dialogue will be analized, secondly the most distinctive features of the lullian approach will be presented, i.e. doubt and philosophy, and finally a Philosophy of Religions inspired by Llull and current theology will be proposed.

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