عنوان

Mutual constructive engagement: A Macintyrean approach to theology of religions-Christianity and Islam in conversation

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TL49271

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Mutual constructive engagement: A Macintyrean approach to theology of religions-Christianity and Islam in conversation

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

David J. Brewer

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Murphy, Nancey C.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Fuller Theological Seminary, Center for Advanced Theological Study

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

221

Text of Note

Committee members: Early, Christian; Karkkainen, Veli-Matti

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-63060-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Center for Advanced Theological Studies

Body granting the degree

Fuller Theological Seminary, Center for Advanced Theological Study

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

In this dissertation I argue that Alasdair MacIntyre's account of tradition-constituted rationality resolves several of the major problems that impede progress for pluralism in theology of religions. Pluralists are motivated by two primary concerns-accounting for the radical diversity of religious belief without negating their intrinsic truth or salvific efficacy, and providing motivation for interreligious dialogue. The first commitment, I contend, undermines the second, for if there is no difference between religious traditions in respect to truth, then there is little to be gained from constructive dialogue at an epistemological level. The first commitment is similarly undermined by the tendency of pluralists to appeal to some form of universal grounding for all religious belief. MacIntyre's account resolves both of these problems. First, by arguing that all rationality is constituted by historically-situated traditions of enquiry, MacIntyre is better able to account for true diversity, arguing that every tradition forms from particular authoritative texts and voices in response to unique historical circumstances, not from universal grounds. Second, by arguing that every tradition is always capable of encountering epistemological crises that call into question the very possibility of knowledge, he not only resolves the problem of relativism, but also preserves true motivation for dialogue, since it is always possible, in the midst of such a crisis, for one tradition to learn from another.

Religion; Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy of Science

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Divine action;Epistemological crises;Interreligious dialogue;Islam;Rationality;Science and religion

Chaudhuri, Diviani

Murphy, Nancey C.

Subdivision

Center for Advanced Theological Studies

Fuller Theological Seminary, Center for Advanced Theological Study

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1880538449; 10255288

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276903

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