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Document Details : Title: Is Interfaith Theology Possible? Author(s): CHIA, Edmund Kee-fook Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Date: 2008 Pages: 112-117 DOI: 10.2143/SID.18.1.2031615 Abstract : The quest for an Interfaith Theology is by no means a totally new venture. This article begins by discussing why it seems like an impossible quest but then goes on to suggest that it is very much the way forward. That this quest is a Western preoccupation is nothing new, especially if seen in light of the 19th-century enterprise of what Tomoko Masuzawa calls The Invention of World Religions (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Both are motivated by the need not only to define and understand but also to apprehend and control. It is as if, after coming to terms with the fact of the other «world» religions, Western scholars see it their duty to postulate a universal theology in order to envelop them all. It is the process, not the product, after which Interfaith Theology should strive. |
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