Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue

by Pinto,Henrique

• ISBN13: 9780415305686
• ISBN10: 0415305683
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book develops a new model for interfaith dialogue and the role it ought to play in the constitution of the self and the making of society using Foucault's work on the de-centring of transcendence and human reason. This Foucaultian approach offers a new direction for interfaith dialogue and leads to an ethical rather than nihilistic position providing an important and original contribution to the areas of Foucault studies and contemporary theology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	1	(9)
1 The Roman Catholic Church and the other of itself	10	(8)
2 The Roman Catholic Church and the other of other faiths	18	(7)
3 Alternative approaches to other religions	25	(10)
4 A centred theology of religions	35	(4)
5 Michel Foucault	39	(8)
6 Foucault's critique of the anthropological sleep of modernity	47	(11)
7 Power, truth and critique	58	(18)
8 The constitution of self as an ethical subject	76	(17)
9 An ethical sensibility to the other	93	(12)
10 The human/divine face of existence in the flux of bio-history	105	(25)
11 Language, theology and the More	130	(17)
12 Self, freedom and gratuity	147	(16)
Conclusion	163	(4)
Notes	167	(56)
Bibliography	223	(20)
Index	243