Before Hegel and Beyond Kant: Risto Saarinen's Recognition and Religion
When religious tolerance appears in the literature on ecumenicism, religious pluralism, and other modes of peaceful coexistence, it is frequently juxtaposed with the words beyond, more than, and is not enough. To be sure, it is generally conceded in these contexts, tolerance is an improvement...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2017, Volume: 110, Issue: 2, Pages: 301-313 |
Review of: | Recognition and religion (Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016) (Smith, Suzanne E.)
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Acknowledgment
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Ecumene
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RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KDJ Ecumenism |
Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Summary: | When religious tolerance appears in the literature on ecumenicism, religious pluralism, and other modes of peaceful coexistence, it is frequently juxtaposed with the words beyond, more than, and is not enough. To be sure, it is generally conceded in these contexts, tolerance is an improvement on intolerance, and, relatively speaking, then, a fine thing, as far it goes. For many, however, it does not go very far. Religious tolerance, we are told, however virtuous, does nothing to remove our ignorance of one another. It is thought to lack strenuousness, and hence, to be unsuited for modern moral conflicts, which tend increasingly toward the polarity characteristic of war: Tolerance, especially of the knee-jerk variety. . . works as long as people can slink off by themselves, avoiding contact, and never facing up to what they truly believe. No one says, I am fighting for [fill in the blank] with all the toleration I can muster. |
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ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816017000098 |