Interreligious Testimonial Dialogue in the Immanent Frame of a Secular Age

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI:10.1007/s40647-024-00425-0
Andrew Tsz Wan Hung
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This paper explores the plausible approach of interreligious dialogue in a secular world. It first examines Taylor’s account of the immanent frame in his A Secular Age. This helps us to grasp the moral spiritual outlook of the modern world and the underlying moral concerns of the controversies between the religions and secularists. I then examine Taylor’s claim regarding the indispensability of transcendence in achieving the fullness of human life which is criticized by non-transcendentists and naturalist mundane transcendentists. I argue that the phenomenon of these controversies, on the one hand, is consistent with Taylor’s account of the Nova effect in the secular world, and, on the other hand, that assessing these different versions of transcendence via Taylor’s historical hermeneutical approach or Wainwright’s inference to the best explanation may raise the problem of Christian-centric or epistemic circularity. Furthermore, as we are now living in the immanent frame, interreligious dialogue cannot be implemented without the practical concerns of ordinary life. Inspired by Ricoeur’s idea of testimony and narrative identity, I argue for a kind of interreligious testimonial dialogue which integrates morality, actions, thought and experience into communication, so that it can enhance mutual sympathetic understanding, broaden the life vision between participants, no matter whether religious or nonreligious, and break through the limitation of epistemic circularity.

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世俗时代即时框架下的宗教间证言对话
本文探讨了在世俗世界中开展宗教间对话的可行方法。本文首先探讨了泰勒在其《世俗时代》(A Secular Age)一书中对 "内在框架"(immanent frame)的论述。这有助于我们把握现代世界的道德精神面貌,以及宗教与世俗主义者之间争论的基本道德关切。然后,我研究了泰勒关于超越在实现人类生命的完整性方面不可或缺的主张,这一主张受到了非超越论者和自然主义世俗超越论者的批评。我认为,一方面,这些争议的现象与泰勒关于世俗世界中新星效应的论述是一致的;另一方面,通过泰勒的历史诠释学方法或温赖特的最佳解释推论来评估这些不同版本的超越性,可能会引发以基督教为中心或认识论循环的问题。此外,由于我们现在生活在 "在世 "的框架中,宗教间对话的实施离不开对普通生活的实际关注。受呂科爾見證與敘事認同思想的啟發,我主張一種宗教間的見證對話,將道德、行動、思想與經驗融入溝通之中,從而增進彼此的共鳴理解,擴闊參與者(無論是宗教或非宗教)的生命視野,突破認知循環的限制。
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Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-
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