This impressive volume brings together numerous essays honouring
the life and work of the Critical Theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert. His
'dialectical religiology' rooted in the critical theory of the
Frankfurt School-especially the work of Theodor Adorno, Max
Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo
Loewenthal, and Jurgen Habermas-is both a theory and method of
understanding religion's critique of modernity and modernity's
critique of religion. According to the Enlightenment and its most
important thinkers, i.e. Kant, Hegel, and Marx religion is
understood to be dialectical in nature. It contains within it both
revolutionary and emancipatory elements, but also reactionary and
regressive elements, which perpetuate mankind's continual
debasement, enslavement, and oppression. Thus, religion by nature
is conflicted within itself and thus stands against itself.
Dialectical Religiology attempts to rescue those elements of
religion from the dustbin of history and reintroduce them into
society via their determinate negation. As such, it attempts to
resolve the social, political, theological, and philosophical
antagonisms that plague the modern world, in hopes of producing a
more peaceful, justice-filled, equal, and reconciled society. The
contributors to this book recognize the tremendous contributions of
Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert in the fields of philosophy, sociology,
history, and theology, and have benefited from his long career.
This book attempts to honour his life and work by engaging with and
expanding upon it. Contributors include: Edmund Arens, Gregory
Baum, Francis Brassard, Dustin J. Byrd, Denis R. Janz, Gottfried
Kuenzlen, Mislav Kukoc, Michael, R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, Hans K.
Weitensteiner, and Brian C. Wilson.
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