A Genealogy of Faith and Freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans-Herbert Kögler (0000-0003-0321-4090, University of North Florida), Hans‐herbert Kögler (University of North Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 7-8 |
| Pages | 37-46 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276420957735 |
| OpenAlex | W3093331135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The review highlights how Habermas reconstructs the historically constitutive function of religious thought regarding essential categories through which to appropriate our practical freedom. It articulates the three essential bifurcations taken along the way: to opt for Judeo-Christian dialogism versus other axial age world religions; for a Lutheran Kantianism of an unconditional normativity versus an empiricist naturalism; and for the hermeneutic discovery of a validity-oriented communicative agency versus a Hegelian metaphysics. Recognizing our normative indebtedness to religious roots in modernity is to enable the renewal of an unabashed commitment to 'rational freedom,' thus serving as a bulwark against currently fashionable scientistic worldviews. Such a hermeneutic genealogy may also provide one promising resource to reconstruct shared normative ideals in a cross-cultural dialogue
Agency (philosophy · Empiricism · Epistemology · Faith · Hegelianism · Metaphysics · Modernity · Naturalism · Normative · Sociology · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |