The Theological Methodology for Ecumenical Dialogue in a Plural World : The Analysis of David Tracy’s Analogical Imagination and John Cobb’s Christology
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The objective of this project is to offer a way in which we are able to engage in a peaceful dialogue beyond the extreme dichotomy between absolutism and relativism when we will participate in an ecumenical dialogue in a plural religious world. For this goal, I chose David Tracy and John Cobb who suggest useful paradigms for ecumenical dialogues in a plural world and analyzed their theological methodologies and Christology. Tracy calls our attention to the analogical that employs “similarities-in-difference” and maintains the tension between the source of meaning and expressions of meaning. The imagination is necessary to re-interpret the symbols of Christian classics and create new expressions for new circumstances. Tracy offers the idea of analogical imagination as one of the useful devices for applying the power of the classics to the contemporary. John Cobb argues the possibility of dialogue between religions in light of Christology based on a process thought. John Cobb is convinced that pluralism helps Christianity reform itself and change the world. To Cobb, there is no ontological difference between Jesus as an incarnated Logos between all other humans. The dynamic relationships of God, Logos, and Jesus is able to be extensible to all humans. From this perspective, Cobb accepts the authenticity of various religious traditions in their particular history and the potential convergence of the plurality of traditions through participating in the dynamic of dialogue. Tracy is interested in various expressions of Christ-event within Christianity, while Cobb calls his attention to the multi-religious situations. Both, however, take the interpretation of Christ-event as the device for ecumenical dialogue or interfaith dialogue.
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The objective of this project is to offer a way in which we are able to engage in a peaceful dialogue beyond the extreme dichotomy between absolutism and relativism when we will participate in an ecumenical dialogue in a plural religious world. For this goal, I chose David Tracy and John Cobb who suggest useful paradigms for ecumenical dialogues in a plural world and analyzed their theological methodologies and Christology. Tracy calls our attention to the analogical that employs “similarities-in-difference” and maintains the tension between the source of meaning and expressions of meaning. The imagination is necessary to re-interpret the symbols of Christian classics and create new expressions for new circumstances. Tracy offers the idea of analogical imagination as one of the useful devices for applying the power of the classics to the contemporary. John Cobb argues the possibility of dialogue between religions in light of Christology based on a process thought. John Cobb is convinced that pluralism helps Christianity reform itself and change the world. To Cobb, there is no ontological difference between Jesus as an incarnated Logos between all other humans. The dynamic relationships of God, Logos, and Jesus is able to be extensible to all humans. From this perspective, Cobb accepts the authenticity of various religious traditions in their particular history and the potential convergence of the plurality of traditions through participating in the dynamic of dialogue. Tracy is interested in various expressions of Christ-event within Christianity, while Cobb calls his attention to the multi-religious situations. Both, however, take the interpretation of Christ-event as the device for ecumenical dialogue or interfaith dialogue.
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