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現今大多數神學家都接受宗教多元化不只是一種事實(de facto)，而且是一種原則(de iure) ，因此教會必須努力促進自身與其他信仰的和諧關係。榮休教宗本篤十六世、即天主教信理部前部長約瑟夫．拉辛格，除致力帶領教會加深理解宣揚福音的使命，也嘗試建立天主教與別的基督信仰群體、其他宗教傳統及俗世社會的良好關係。本文透過考察拉辛格的作品，指出他在基督宗教與其他宗教關係的教導，是源於西方哲學及神學思想的正統規範，這令他對採取相異的哲學或神學框架去思考這問題的神學家，予以存疑和批判。 / 通過批判拉辛格神學思想的歐洲中心主義，本文希望能突顯出源自非歐洲處境的神學論述的重要性，尤其亞洲教會中在對教理的理解和牧養實踐之間的鴻溝，而亞洲神學家又如何在西方思想主導下竭力發聲。本文雖然贊同拉辛格就許多現今社會問題的分析，如世俗化的擴張及歐洲的信仰危機；但本文旨在聚焦於亞洲的宗教多元化的現況，而這現狀促使亞洲的教會，不論在神學建構及牧養實踐上，都需要採取迥然不同的策略。 / Religious pluralism is now accepted by many theologians as not simply a fact of life (de facto) but in principle (de iure), and therefore efforts must be undertaken by the church to promote harmonious relationship with other faiths. As the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and as former supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, Joseph Ratzinger has shaped and guided the church’s understanding of its mission to proclaim the Good News as well as to forge good relationship with non-Catholic Christian communities, other religious traditions and with the secular world at large. By examining the works of Ratzinger, this dissertation reveals that his teaching on Christianity’s relationship with other religions assumes the normative status of Western philosophical and theological thought. This privileging of Western thought makes him critical and suspicious of theologians operating from a different philosophical or theological framework. Through a critique of Ratzinger’s theology I hope to draw attention to the importance of theological discourses originating from non-European contexts. Among other things, this work also serves to highlight the gap between a dogmatic understanding of the faith and the pastoral realities of the Asian church, as well as the difficulties faced by Asian theologians trying to make their voices heard in a church still dominated by Western thinking. While I concur with much of Ratzinger’s analysis of the problems in our society such as the aggressive secularism and crisis of faith in Europe I prefer to draw attention to the realities of religious pluralism in Asia which require the church to adopt a different approach in its theological formulations and pastoral practices. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Mong, Ih-Ren Ambrose. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

A wealth of recent scholarship has focused on interreligious dialogue as a resource for the transformation of religious conflicts. Such studies often mention the importance of discoveries or 'insights' as key factors in successful dialogue processes. However, few authors have devoted sustained attention to understanding how insights contribute to transforming conflict dynamics during interfaith dialogues. / The present study draws on the cognitional theory of Canadian philosopher Bernard Lonergan as a framework for exploring the significance of insights in interreligious dialogue processes. The study begins with an overview of representative perspectives on learning in interfaith dialogue and conflict transformation. Following this, I offer a detailed analysis of Lonergan's work on insight in understanding, judgment, and practical learning, highlighting the important role that insights play in structuring interpretation and communication in dialogue situations. / Drawing on Lonergan's theoretical framework, I explore how insights are implicated in shaping communication in dialogues between religious actors, both in the development of conflicts, as well as in their transformation. Using case studies from dialogues involving Christians, Muslims, and Jews, I examine how mistaken insights can contribute to sustaining relationships of threat among parties in religious conflicts. I then examine how dialogue processes can act as catalysts for the emergence of new and more accurate insights that transform parties' understanding of the conflict. By helping parties correct mistaken interpretations and discover alternate ways of communicating, such insights can often play an important role in facilitating shifts from hostile patterns of interaction to more cooperative forms of engagement. / Throughout, I explain how Lonergan's work offers significant advances over existing discussions of insight and its role in conflict transformation processes. His approach identifies a range of different types of insights, and thus facilitates an analysis of the different roles insights can play in structuring communication at different phases of dialogue processes. It also permits a more developed exploration of the various cognitional and environmental conditions that facilitate or frustrate the occurrence of insights in dialogue situations. His work thus constitutes an important resource for theorists and practitioners seeking a better understanding of the cognitive dynamics that contribute to the transformation of interreligious dialogue processes.

Text in English / No abstract provided / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. (Missiology)

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Sur la scène internationale contemporaine ainsi que dans les médias, la pratique du dialogue interreligieux est souvent présentée comme un gage de paix sociale. De nombreuses initiatives internationales, nationales et locales ont vu le jour depuis la création du premier parlement mondial des religions de Chicago en 1893. Dans la ville de Québec, depuis les 40 dernières années, certaines initiatives de dialogue interreligieux ont été proposées par des regroupements religieux ou laïques. Depuis l’an 2000, une activité annuelle regroupe la plupart des promoteurs du dialogue interreligieux de la ville de Québec : les 12 heures de spiritualité. Cette journée thématique regroupe des représentants d’une dizaine de communautés religieuses de la ville de Québec autour d’activités de dialogue interreligieux et de partage de traditions. Cette étude de cas propose l’analyse détaillée du fonctionnement de cette activité afin d’en dégager les principaux enjeux, tant au niveau organisationnel qu’au niveau de la participation du grand public. En combinant les points de vue théorique et emic, cette recherche aborde les particularités d’une telle pratique interreligieuse dans le contexte spécifique de la ville de Québec.

M.A. / Condemnation (by various biblical writers) of certain practices found among st the Israelites which led ultimately to the Exile have often been viewed from two opposite views. The believer in the Bible simply accepted the condemnation at face value, and without question, whereas the scholar sought to explain it in terms of extra-biblical knowledge of the history of other civilisations which often threw doubt on the accuracy and veracity of the biblical record. This mini-dissertation seeks to show that it is possible to accept the viability of the biblical account in terms of the extra-biblical sources.

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Despite significant differences in the why, how and what of their interpretations of religious, our three authors (Muhammad Abu Zahrah, 'Abd-Allah Diraz and Ahmad Shalabi) understand religions, and in Diraz's case the religious phenomenon in general, through categories specific to an Islamic worldview. Their use of Western scientific methods to apprehend the study of religion is not systematic. It varies from Abu Zahrah's limited use to Shalabi's exuberant use, both being highly subservient to polemical intentions. Only Diraz shows familiarity and appreciation for scientific methods, without however subscribing to the epistemology of science which underlies them. The resulting relationship between the scientific study of religion and the Islamic study of religion, as epitomized in the fusion of my own commitments to the former and my authors' commitments to the latter, proves ultimately irreconcilable. Our respective epistemologies remain answerable to different centres of authority; the subjective self in the first instance and the objectified God, Allah, in the second.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2001.