RT Article
T1 Qualifying Religious Truth and Ecclesial Unity: The Soteriological Significance of Difference
JF Religions
VO 15
IS 3
A1 McAleer, Ryan K.
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1883399181
AB The trans-phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas has helped expose the totalising dynamic that has marked much of Western philosophy. The quest for a unity of knowledge in the truth assimilates any hint of otherness into more of the same. Plurality becomes a source of violence and dissent regarded as decay. Levinasian perspectives, however, and recent developments in magisterial teaching in the Roman Catholic Church point to a more ethical approach that can begin to escape the dialectic binary of the same and the other and so help avoid static conceptions of truth and unity. Religious truth and ecclesial unity, in other words, are explored in this paper for their ethical–dialogical quality. Indeed, the asymmetrical priority of dissent within this dialogical approach offers positive soteriological significance for the church rather than seeing dissent as a threat. Such an approach can enable the church to take plurality and diversity seriously in the current context.
K1 Plurality
K1 Ethical
K1 dialogical
K1 Levinas
K1 Salvation
K1 ecclesial unity
K1 Religious Truth
K1 Dissent
K1 Difference
K1 Dialogue
DO 10.3390/rel15030346