Thinking the divine in interreligious encounter / / edited by Norbert Hintersteiner ; in collaboration with Francois Bousquet.

• Superior document: Currents of encounter ; v. 44
• TeilnehmendeR: Hintersteiner, Norbert.; Bousquet, Francois.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Currents of Encounter 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Thinking the Divine in Interreligious Encounter seeks to take seriously our questions of cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue on God or the Divine: How can the Divine be named and thought as Europe finds itself in midst of cross-cultural processes of a global nature and as religions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism come into the foreground in the West? What are some of the major shifts in Christian theology, as it recognizes that peoples of non-Christian faith traditions name and think the Divine in ways that differ from and sometimes conflict with Europe’s dominant religion(s) and secular culture? Together with “Naming and Thinking God in Europe Today” and “Post-colonial Europe in the Crucible of Cultures” (Rodopi 2007), this volume allows us to discover opportunities for a multivalenced reflection on God or the Divine that achieves mutual intelligibility without surrendering to a dogmatic untranslatability or a crude relativism.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Cross-cultural translations -- pt. 3. Interreligious engagements -- pt. 4. Encounters with Asian religions -- pt. 5. Epilogue.