Theopoetics and Religious Difference

Zusatztext

In this study, Marius van Hoogstraten seeks to come to an understanding of the interreligious that embraces the ambiguity, historicity, and dynamic relationality of religious difference - in a word, its unruliness. While many approaches in theology implicitly recognize this unruliness, they typically try to bring it under control, to pacify it, or keep it at a distance. Instead, the author proposes turning to the "theopoetics" - approaches to theology marked by both uncertainty and creativity - of the contemporary philosophers and theologians Richard Kearney, John D. Caputo and Catherine Keller to envision the interreligious as the non-site of an aporetic relatedness neither secondary to religious identity nor indicative of an underlying unity, making it possible for an inter-religious solidarity to emerge from the depths of difference.

Autorenportrait

Born 1985; 2019 PhD; previously worked as a research associate at the University of Hamburg and as a peace worker with the Mennonite church in Berlin; currently postdoctoral researcher at the Mennonite Seminary in Amsterdam and a pastor in the Mennonite congregation in Hamburg, Germany.

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