De Weg, De Waarheid En Het Leven

Abstract

SummaryIn our postmodern times, the question ‘where is truth’ and surely ‘truth with regard to religion’ (wherein truth and salvation are implicated with each other) appears to be answered especially with the reply ‘in particular traditions’. The combination ‘truth, particular tradition and salvation’, however, still leaves a number of avenues open.In the first part, we go over the ideas of Herman De Dijn, Richard Rorty, Peter Koslowski and Jurgen Habermas respectively with regard to truth and particularity. The first two desire to respect fully the particular and contingent character of traditions that accord meaning. The other two authors also take this starting point but nonetheless deem it necessary to ensure the truth content of traditions in that which rises above that particularity and contingency. Koslowski chooses the metaphysical anchoring of the truth - an anchoring which only becomes public with the philosophical re-reading of the Christian tradition. Habermas appeals to the criterion of inter...