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Document Details : Title: Complementary Reasoning and Interreligious Dialogue Subtitle: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Reflection Author(s): SYDNOR, Jon Paul Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Date: 2005 Pages: 165-181 DOI: 10.2143/SID.15.2.2004103 Abstract : Although some theorists have explored interreligious cognition, few theorists have applied Niels Bohr’s strong complementarity reasoning to an interreligious conversation in order to determine its promise. This essay investigates the potential of strong complementarity reasoning as a religious mode of cognition suitable for interreligious dialogue. It does not seek to advance complementarity reasoning as such but simply to determine its interreligious promise. And in fact, this essay suggests that strong complementarity reasoning has but a mitigated role to play in interreligious dialogue, more as a stimulant and validator than as a religious mode of cognition. This essay will conclude that interreligious dialogue is better served by traditionally religious modes of cognition, such as paradox, than by modes of cognition borrowed from the physical sciences. |
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