Intercultural Theology and the Historicity of Thinking
Reconstructing the Current German Discussion in Philosophical Perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.31380Keywords:
Schmidt-Leukel, transmission-centered approach, Ustorf, neo-Kantianism, ethnocentricity, historicisty, (Christian) Other, Feldtkeller, KüsterAbstract
In this article, I analyze the German-speaking discussion on the discipline of Intercultural Theology. Among others, I criticize Schmidt-Leukel’s suggestion to define it as interreligious theology. This definition being somewhat arbitrary, I suggest reconstructing it under the parameters of philosophical and cultural insights that acknowledge the historicity of thinking and the ethnocentricity of justification. This move allows to allows “transmission-centered approaches” to be replaced by “context-sensitive” ones that honor the subject status of the Christian Other.
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———. 2015. “Justified Religious Difference: A Constructive Approach to Reli¬gious Diversity.” International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 76(5): 419–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/21692327.2015.1166682
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Kant, Immanuel. 2008. Was ist Aufklärung? Thesen und Definitionen. Edited by Eberhard Bahr: Stuttgart: Reclam.
Krausz, Michael/Meiland, Jack W., editors. 1982. Relativism. Cognitive and Moral. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Krausz, Michael, editor. 2010. Relativism. A Contemporary Anthology. New York: Columbia Press.
Küster, Volker. 2001. “Interkulturelle Theologie.” In Religion in Geschichte und Ge¬genwart, 197–199. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
———. 2011. Einführung in die Interkulturelle Theologie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Kuhn, Thomas. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Second edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Margolis, Joseph. 1995. Historied Thought, Constructed World World: A Concep¬tual Primer for the Turn of the Millenium. Berkeley: University of Cali¬fornia Press.
——. 2005. “Missionswissenschaft als Interkulturelle Theologie und ihr Verhält¬nis zur Religionswissenschaft.” Zeitschrift für Mission 31: 376–382 http:// dgmw.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/12/Text_07_16.10.12_DG¬MW-Papier.pdf
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———. 2012. “Küster.” Theologische Literaturzeitung 137(12): 1407–1408.
Werner, Dietrich. 2011. “Theological Education in the Changing Context of World Christianity: An Unfinished Agenda. Global and Ecumenical Perspectives from the Edinburgh 2010 Process and Beyond.” Rethinking Mission. http:// www.rethinkingmission.org.uk/pdfs/Werner_December
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2017-03-27
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Grube, D.-M. (2017). Intercultural Theology and the Historicity of Thinking: Reconstructing the Current German Discussion in Philosophical Perspective. Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology, 1(1), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1558/isit.31380
