Abstract
ABSTRACT: Our global and local conversations about human dignity and flourishing are shaped by the irreducible plurality of human experience, including religious experience and our political cultures must have the capacity to facilitate intercultural and interreligious exchange. In this context it is more vital than ever that religious traditions, including Catholicism, are to the fore as we go about the business of building a politics focused on the global common good. From the perspective of Catholicism, the contribution of Dignitatis humanae has yet to be properly realised, not only in respect to respect for religious pluralism, but more especially in respect to ethical pluralism.RESUMO: Nossas conversações locais e globais sobre a dignidade humana e a prosperidade são determinadas pela irredutível pluralidade da experiência humana, inclusive a experiência religiosa e nossas culturas políticas devem ter a capacidade de facilitar os intercâmbios interculturais e interreligiosos. Neste contexto, é mais vital do que nunca que as tradições religiosas, inclusive o Catolicismo, estejam em primeiro plano, pois nosso interesse é a construção de políticas centradas no bem comum. Na perspectiva do Catolicismo, a contribuição de Dignitatis Humanae ainda não se realizou adequadamente, não só no que se refere ao pluralismo religioso, mas especialmente no diz respeito ao pluralismo ético.
Highlights
Our collective fate is more closely tied than at any time in our history
Almost daily we encounter issues that no government can successfully deal with alone – global degradation, nuclear and chemical proliferation, migration, terrorism – and so it is more important than ever that we create a global politics premised on the protection of human dignity and flourishing.The creation of such an emancipatory politics is vital for our planetary wellbeing and religious traditions have the potential to play a significant role in this task
Given that our global and local conversations about human dignity and flourishing are shaped by the irreducible plurality of human experience, including religious experience, our political cultures must have the capacity to facilitate such intercultural and interreligious exchange
Summary
Our collective fate is more closely tied than at any time in our history. Almost daily we encounter issues that no government can successfully deal with alone – global degradation, nuclear and chemical proliferation, migration, terrorism – and so it is more important than ever that we create a global politics premised on the protection of human dignity and flourishing.The creation of such an emancipatory politics is vital for our planetary wellbeing and religious traditions have the potential to play a significant role in this task. Its influence has been transformative, and its agenda is as vital today as it was on the day of its promulgation It created a new theological context from which the church has been able to engage with the reality of religious and cultural pluralism, and I will discuss this in the first part of my paper. Nature of global politics today in order to demonstrate why it is more important than ever that the church continues to reckon with religious pluralism and to affirm its value In this context I will suggest that Dignitatis humanae has only just begun a process that must be continued, highlighting in particular that an important and neglected part of unfinished agenda of Dignitatis humanae relates to how the church engages the ethical truth claims (as well as the religious truth claims) of the other. I will argue that the same trajectory in respect of ethical pluralism needs to be pursued, as has been adopted in respect of religious truth claims, if the church is to be a credible voice in articulating a vision of the global public good in a pluralistic world
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