Human rationality in Vito Mancuso’s liberal Catholic theology augmenting the notions of Van Huyssteen’s ‘postfoundational transversality’ and McGrath’s ‘rational consilience’
The cue for this article is human rationality being the cornerstone in Wentzel van Huyssteen’s thinking, and Alister McGrath’s scepsis about the feasibility of a postfoundational transversality in particular. This article does not intend to juxtapose Van Huyssteen’s postfoundational rationality to...
| Subtitles: | Wentzel van Huyssteen Festschrift |
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| Authors: | ; |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Verbum et ecclesia
Year: 2021, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-8 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel 1942-2022
/ Mancuso, Vito 1962-
/ Rationality
/ Fundamentalism
/ McGrath, Alister E. 1953-
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| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Vito Mancuso
B human rationality B rational consilience B Alister McGrath B theology and science dialogue B Wentzel van Huyssteen B Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel 1942-2022 B post-foundational transversality |
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| Summary: | The cue for this article is human rationality being the cornerstone in Wentzel van Huyssteen’s thinking, and Alister McGrath’s scepsis about the feasibility of a postfoundational transversality in particular. This article does not intend to juxtapose Van Huyssteen’s postfoundational rationality to McGrath’s enterprise of a ‘rational consilience’ but contends that a transversal approach to rationality engages social ramifications as well. Subsequently, a liberal Catholic theologian’s take on rationality is presented here as such an offering from the social sciences contributes to a bricolage of unintegrated pieces of knowledge and discernments emerging from various disciplinary or social viewpoints on reality. Vito Mancuso continues to focus on human rationality which, in his view, provides humanity with the hope of eternal life or life from the perspective of eternity. Such a conviction is in line with his horizontal understanding of human rationality, in addition to the human being’s first challenge to understanding reality. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The reason d’être of this article is to call for a discussion partner to the notion of human rationality from the social sciences (indicated as one of the neglected fields in the theology and science discourse). Vito Mancuso, for one, brings the pragmatic and transformative (even revolutionary) dimension to the table. A transversal approach to rationality must integrate such social practices as well. |
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| ISSN: | 2074-7705 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Verbum et ecclesia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4102/ve.v42i2.2222 |