Comparative Theology مقاله

خلاصه ماشینی:

What makes any kind of theology explicitly comparative within the scope of any specific tradition is a fundamental and objective (and not merely methodological) transformation in the interpretation and explanation of the contemporary situation. In precise logical terms, the concept of "mutual critical correlations" expresses several possible relationships between two broadly distinct interpretations: 1) Identification between the questions arising from the situation and the answers given to it, and the questions and answers offered by the tradition (as is proposed in many liberal and modern Christian theological schools). 3) Fundamental distinctions, or in more existential terms, the confrontation between two interlocutors (as is evident in the emphasis of Hindu and Buddhist religions on the necessity of the reality of a "higher consciousness"); or In any case, the explicit cultivation of interpretation after Schleiermacher has taken shape among Westerners from a sense of cultural distance from religious traditions, which is the offspring of the seventeenth-century industrial revolution and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This general model can be made more precise by involving the following definition of a common theological method in the new situation: every theology is an effort to achieve mutual critical correlations between an interpretation of a specific religious tradition and an interpretation of the contemporary situation. {J Issues and Possibilities J} In general, contemporary researchers working in the field of the history of religions or religious studies do not use the term "comparative theology" in the sense that Muller or Clarke used it.