- 著者
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高橋 良一
- 出版者
- 宗教哲学会
- 雑誌
- 宗教哲学研究 (ISSN:02897105)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.16, pp.81-93, 1999 (Released:2019-03-20)
In this essay I attempt to show Tillich’s tendency towards the interreligious dialogue and its significance.
Tillich was aware of the significance of interreligious dialogue very early. On the assumption of a dialogue between representatives of two different religions, Tillich points out four presuppositions. ① Both should acknowledge the value of the other’s religious conviction. ② Each of them should be able to represent his own religious basis. ③ There should be a common ground which makes dialogue possible. ④ There should be the openness to criticism. The third and fourth presuppositions are derived from Tillich’s thought of revelation. Tillich thinks revelatory events as revelatory correlation. Revelation must be received and everyone can participate in revelatory correlation. This possibility of acceptance of revelation is a common ground of interreligious dialogue.
The significance of dialogue is derived from the truth of the knowledge of revelation. Its truth is to be judged by criteria within the dimension of revelatory knowledge. Tillich gives the criteria of revelation in the light of Jesus as the Christ, that is, uninterrupted unity with the ground of his being and the continuous sacrifice of Jesus to the Christ. This self-negation is criticism to idolatry. In a dialogue, mutual criticism is transformed into self-criticism. The significance of a dialogue consists in this criticism.
Tillich insists Christianity has openness and receptivity. He affirms the uniqueness and superiority of Christianity from the principle of criticism which is deprived from Jesus as the Christ. Tillich’s apologetic theology contains the tendency towards the interreligious dialogue.