Abstract

GOMEZ, Carlos Miguel. The Challenge of Truth to Interreligious Dialogue. Theol. Xave. [online]. 2018, vol.68, n.185, pp.46-68. ISSN 0120-3649.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.tx68-185.dvdi.

This paper argues that the evaluation of religious truth claims is one of the conditions for the possibility of interreligious dialogue. This thesis takes distance from the theories that, bracketing the truth of religious claims, suggest that it is enough with argumentative, pragmatic or ethical criteria for making dialogue possible. Firstly, it explores the role of truth in dialogue; then it analyses the features and functions of religious truth claims, showing its differences with regard to other types of truth. The last part presents two criteria to evaluate the truth of religious claims in dialogue—one based on the meaning-giving function of religion, and the other on the historical and relational character of religious truth.

Keywords : Religious diversity; Normative elements of interreligious dialogue; Religious truth.

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