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Document Details : Title: Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue Subtitle: The Foremost Challenge for the Churches at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Author(s): MERRIGAN, Terence Journal: Louvain Studies Volume: 33 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2008 Pages: 159-178 DOI: 10.2143/LS.33.1.2034342 Abstract : Up until now, the disciplines of theology of interreligious dialogue and ecumenical theology have led largely separate lives. Nevertheless, recent ecumenical theology exhibits striking similarities to the so-called pluralist theology of religions. This raises the question of whether ecumenical theology is subject to the same pitfalls as the pluralist theology of religions, including the failure to identify any recognizable or realistic goal for the dialogue process, and the tendency to subsume fruitful diversity under some grander, unifying scheme which vitiates real – and perhaps irreducible – differences. This paper asks whether ecumenical theology might not benefit from a consideration of the lessons to be learned from the recent history of the theology of dialogue, particularly as regards the commitment (and the passions) that the attachment to particular traditions is able to generate. |
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