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Habermas and Theology (Hardcover, New)
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Habermas and Theology (Hardcover, New)
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How can the world's religious traditions debate within the public
sphere? In this book, Nicholas Adams shows the importance of
Habermas' approaches to this question. The full range of Habermas'
work is considered, with detailed commentary on the more difficult
texts. Adams energetically rebuts some of Habermas' arguments,
particularly those which postulate the irrationality or stability
of religious thought. Members of different religious traditions
need to understand their own ethical positions as part of a process
of development involving ongoing disagreements, rather than a
stable unchanging morality. Public debate additionally requires
learning each other's patterns of disagreement. Adams argues that
rather than suspending their deep reasoning to facilitate debate,
as Habermas suggests, religious traditions must make their
reasoning public, and that 'scriptural reasoning' is a possible
model for this. Habermas overestimates the stability of religious
traditions. This book offers a more realistic assessment of the
difficulties and opportunities they face.
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