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Document Details : Title: Is Comparative Theology Catholic? Author(s): VON STOSCH, Klaus Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Volume: 24 Issue: 1 Date: 2014 Pages: 59-67 DOI: 10.2143/SID.24.1.3040778 Abstract : The decisive question for the possibility and fruitfulness of a Catholic theological approach to other religions is if Catholics can learn something from other religious believers even if they go beyond Christian doctrine. Klaus von Stosch argues that such learning across religious borders is possible within Catholic theologies because 1) the church’s and his understanding of the logos will never come to an end, 2) Catholic thinking accepts the existence of autonomous philosophical criteria of truth, and 3) it is possible that even contradictions can help one attain a deeper understanding (and even a revision of one’s understanding) of one’s beliefs if we adopt a regulative understanding of the nature of doctrine. Von Stosch argues that a genuinely Catholic approach to comparative theology should be both open to other religions and vulnerable to their truth on the one hand and faithful to its own tradition and the possibility of a philosophical defense of belief on the other. Marianne Moyaert and Von Stosch engage in a discussion on the text-centred approach in comparative theology, the question if the methods and standards of comparative theology do not monopolise the practice of comparative theology, and the nature of the relationship between love, understanding, and appreciation. |
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