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Document Details : Title: John Hick's Kantian Theory of Religious Pluralism and the Challenge of Secular Thinking Author(s): ANDREW KIRK, J. Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Date: 2002 Pages: 23-36 DOI: 10.2143/SID.12.1.519013 Abstract : In this presentation I wish to set a discussion of the prospects for interreligious dialogue within wwhat is arguable the most important historical reality of our time, namely the irreligious assumptions of contemporary secular culture in its increasingly global manifestation. I will argue that worthwhile prospects for interreligious dialogue at the beginning of the 21st century depend upon people of religious faith coming to terms with the long secular-humanist tradition, simply because this represents the most formative matrix of global existence. Although largely a phenomenon of Western European history, it underlies and empowers the forces of globalisation, which affect almost everybody and everything on this planet. |
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