- Title
- Religious and Theological Knowing: A Post-enlightenment Educational Lacuna
- Creator
- Lovat, Terence
- Relation
- Education, Religion and Ethics: A Scholarly Collection p. 3-20
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24719-4_1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- The chapter makes the case for religious and theological knowing being among the ways of knowing largely lost in what Habermas refers to as a failure of the Enlightenment. Separating such ways of knowing from sectarian or enfaithing overlays and employing a largely Habermasian schema, the case proposes that religious and theological knowing constitute important means by which people in modern societies can understand themselves and their world in enhanced fashion. Furthermore, it is proposed that such knowing can facilitate the addressing of crucial societal concerns that emanate from a religious motivation, be they positive or, especially, negative motivations with potential to lead to conflict and violence. The chapter applies this thinking to education, proposing that liberal theology and interfaith religious education possess potential as curriculum means by which this way of knowing can be brought to effect.
- Subject
- religious knowing; theological knowing; liberal theology; interfaith religious education; Jurgen Habermas
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1491548
- Identifier
- uon:53120
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783031247187
- Language
- eng
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