Rational Theology within Postmetaphysical Thinking? A Catholic Assessment of Habermas’ View of Religious Belief

Jürgen Habermas’ assessment of the rationality of religious convictions is ambivalent, as it oscillates between a postsecular appropriation of their semantic potentials and a fideistic insistence on their "discursive extraterritoriality." In this article, I argue that Habermas’ fideistic p...

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Auteur principal: Breul, Martin 1986- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
Dans: Horizons
Année: 2021, Volume: 48, Numéro: 2, Pages: 456-474
Classifications IxTheo:KAJ Époque contemporaine
KDB Église catholique romaine
NAB Théologie fondamentale
VA Philosophie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Jürgen Habermas
B Postsecularism
B Postmetaphysical Thinking
B Religious Epistemology
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Résumé:Jürgen Habermas’ assessment of the rationality of religious convictions is ambivalent, as it oscillates between a postsecular appropriation of their semantic potentials and a fideistic insistence on their "discursive extraterritoriality." In this article, I argue that Habermas’ fideistic portrayal of religious convictions is neither compatible with the overall argumentative architecture of his postsecular paradigm nor a logical consequence of Habermas’ philosophical framework in general. Instead, once his fideism is overcome, Habermas’ postmetaphysical discourse theory provides valuable resources for contemporary Catholic theology. This article thus offers both a theological assessment of Habermas’ view of religious belief and an argument for a Catholic appropriation of Habermas’ postmetaphysical thinking.
ISSN:2050-8557
Contient:Enthalten in: Horizons
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/hor.2021.62