Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology and Interreligious Hospitality

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35705-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Currents of Encounter

In Hope and Otherness, Jakob Wirén analyses the place and role of the religious Other in contemporary eschatology. In connection with this theme, he examines and compares different levels of inclusion and exclusion in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish eschatologies. He argues that a distinction should be made in approaches to this issue between soteriological openness and eschatological openness. By going beyond Christian theology and also looking to Muslim and Jewish sources and by combining the question of the religious Other with eschatology, Wirén explores ways of articulating Christian eschatology in light of religious otherness, and provides a new and vital slant to the threefold paradigm of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism that has been prevalent in the theology of religions.

“Jakob Wirén’s study pushes forward the frontiers of three disciplines all at the same time: theology of religions; comparative religions and eschatology. (…) This is a challenging and important book.”
- Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol, Professor of Catholic Theology, 2017

“This book explores of the status of religious others in Christian eschatology, and of eschatology itself as a privileged place for reflecting on religious otherness. Wiren mines not only Christian, but also Jewish and Muslim sources to develop an inclusive eschatology. Hope and Otherness thus represents an important contribution to both theology of religions and comparative theology.”
- Catherine Cornille, Boston College, Professor of Comparative Theology, 2017

Autoren/Hrsg.

W Wirén, Jakob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 The Task
1.2 The Context of This Study
Theologies of Religions: Introduction
The Threefold Paradigm
The Threefold Paradigm and This Study
Beyond the Threefold Paradigm? i: Particularism as a Fourth Option
Beyond the Threefold Paradigm? ii: Comparative Theology
1.3 Methodological Considerations
The Method of Correlation
A Revised Method of Correlation
A Revised Method of Correlation as Comparative Theology?
Introducing the Heuristic Tools
1.4 Material
1.5 Terminological Considerations
How Some of the Terms are Interrelated
The Concepts of Hope and Eschatology
The Concepts of Other and Otherness
Otherness and Theological Integrity
1.6 The Structure of This Study
2 Christian Eschatologies and the Religious Other
2.1 Introduction
Eschatological Positions vis-à-vis the Religious Other
2.2 The Foundation: Four Cornerstones
Truth and the Religious Other: Joseph Ratzinger
Hope and the Religious Other: Jürgen Moltmann
History and the Religious Other: Wolfhart Pannenberg
The Real and the Religious Other: John Hick
2.3 The Rise of the Notion of the Religious Other in Christian Eschatology
‘Old Doctrines for New Jobs’: Gavin D’Costa
Respecting Other’s Religious Ends: S. Mark Heim
2.4 Conclusion: Heuristic Tools
3 A Wider Horizon: Hope and Otherness in Muslim and Jewish Eschatologies
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Hope and Otherness in Muslim Eschatologies
Introduction
A Taxonomy of Contemporary Muslim Thinkers
Introducing Muslim Theologies of Religions
Picturing Paradise: Mujtaba Musavi Lari
Eschatology and Ethical Criteria: Fazlur Rahman
The Vision of Islam: William C. Chittick
Revisiting the Heuristic Tools
3.3 Jewish Eschatologies
Introduction
Contemporary Jewish Theology
Introducing Jewish Theologies of Religions
Election: Michael Wyschogrod and the Chosen People
The Messiah: Steven Schwarzschild and a Theology of Waiting
The Resurrection of the Dead: Neil Gillman and the Hereafter
Revisiting the Heuristic Tools
3.4 Conclusion: Heuristic Tools
4 Towards a Christian Eschatology with Theological Integrity for the Religious Other
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theological Space: Religious Otherness Reassessed
Introduction
Contributions from Muslim and Jewish Eschatologies
Linguistic Hospitality
Death and Otherness
4.3 Theological Interplay: Eschatological Otherness Reassessed
Introduction
Contributions of Muslim and Jewish Eschatologies
The Apophatic Nature of the Eschaton
A Tradition-Specific Determination of the Eschaton?
4.4 The Heavenly Banquet
The Feast as a Human Symbol
The Feast as a Religious Symbol
The Heavenly Banquet as a Christian Symbol
4.5 Conclusion
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Jakob Wirén, Ph.D. (2013), is Reader in Systematic Theology at Lund University and research fellow at the Church of Sweden Research Unit. He is also the theological advisor of Archbishop Antje Jackelén. Jakob Wirén’s most recent book is Utmaningsdriven undervisning (Verbum 2017).