Habermas and Theology

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Cambridge University Press, 18 May 2006 - 267 sayfa
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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Religion in public
1
The ideal speech situation
23
Authority and distance in tradition
49
Sacred and profane
66
Universalism
92
Theology and political theory
106
Theology social theory and rationalisation
124
Modernitys triumph over theology
154
Habermas in dialogue with theologians
182
Narrative and argument
203
Scriptural difference and scriptural reasoning
234
List of references
256
Index
265
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Nicholas Adams is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Eclipse of Grace: Divine and Human Action in Hegel (2013).

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