Raimon Panikkar Research Articles

Salvation in World Religions

AbstractThis article is a plea for a sympathetic and empathetic understanding of salvation in the major faith traditions of the world. There is no such thing as Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim or Jewish salvation, H. S. Wilson insists--only human salvation. After discussing the biblical roots of the word "salvation," Wilson reflects on what Christians would call salvation in Judaism, Islam,, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Here he finds many similarities to the Christian notion, but also significant differences. Then, in the context of today's changing Christian attitude toward the possibility of salvation in other religious ways, Wilson finds paths toward possible progress in John B. Cobb, Jr.'s challenge of "mutual transformation," in Raimon Panikkar's call for intra-religious dialogue, and in Aloysius Pieris' notion of "enreligionization." The religions of the world will thrive in the future, argues Wilson, only if they grow towards one another and avoid isolation and fundamentalism.

Rethinking Secularism (with Raimon Panikkar)

More than a century after Nietzsche's proclamation of the “death of God,” some recent books speak alarmingly of “the revenge of God” and the prospect of a “new cold war”—a conflict pitting religious “fundamentalists” against agnostic secularists on a worldwide scale. Remembering the cultural struggles of nineteenthcentury Europe, one might say that today Kulturkampfhas been globalized. At this juncture it seems timely to reexamine the meaning of secularism and secularization and their relation to religious faith.

THE COSMOTHEANDRIC VISION IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandrism compared with Choi Jae Woo's Waiting on God experience

THE COSMOTHEANDRIC VISION IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Raimon Panikkar's Cosmotheandrism compared with Choi Jae Woo's Waiting on God experience

Book Review: The Intercultural Challenge of Raimon Panikkar

Book Review: The Intercultural Challenge of Raimon Panikkar

Overcoming Fragmentation: Discerning the Context of Raimon Panikkar's Cross-cultural Contribution

Overcoming Fragmentation: Discerning the Context of Raimon Panikkar's Cross-cultural Contribution

Sharing ecological wisdom through dialogue across worldview boundaries

This paper aims to build a bridge between worldviews, a bridge capable of connecting what are often incomensurable perceptions of environmental issues. A model for communication which goes beyond argumentation and dialectics is derived and outlined from the various works of Raimon Panikkar. Panikkar's diatopical model offers symbolic discourse as a means to link theological, philosophical, and ecological aspects of environmental issues. The example of Fijian rainforest conservation is used to show how ecological wisdom may be exchanged across worldview boundaries.

Raimon Panikkar’s Diatopical Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Disclosure: ‘The Silent Look’ as a Symbol of the Ultimate Reality and Meaning in a Muslim-Hindu Encounter

Il s'agit d'une rencontre hindo-musulmane a travers l'approche de Raimon Panikkar. Pour l'A., la methode de Panikkar apparait tres positive, notamment grâce a la reconnaissance de la situation distincte occasionnee par la rencontre de deux conceptions du monde radicalement differentes. Son affirmation d'approche dialogique est coherente avec l'exemple du dialogue entre Dārā Shikōh et Bābā Lāl Dās. Ces deux partenaires du dialogue ont fait l'effort d'aller au-dela de l'endroit (topos) de l'autre. La methode de Panikkar pourrait s'enrichir par la reconnaissance accrue du role de la tradition

The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Consciousness. By Raimon Panikkar. Edited by Scott Eastham. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. xv + 160 pages. $24.95.

The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Consciousness. By Raimon Panikkar. Edited by Scott Eastham. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. xv + 160 pages. $24.95.

Raimon Panikkar, Xabier Zubiri y Amor Ruibal. Un pensamiento marcado por la relación: del "correlacionismo ontológico" y la "respectividad" a la "perspectiva cosmoteándrica"

Celebramos este año el centenario de Raimon Panikkar; uno de los más grandes pensadores españoles e, indudablemente, de los que más repercusión internacional ha tenido, al lado de los otros tres grandes filósofos del siglo XX: Unamuno, Ortega y Zubiri. Este trabajo busca la relación entre su pensamiento con el de Xabier Zubiri, pensador bien conocido en la Historia de la Filosofía Española, y Amor Ruibal, pensador gallego menos conocido fuera de ámbitos especializados. Esta conexión entre los tres pensadores está sobre todo en una concepción de la realidad marcada por la relación, que alcanza su culminación en el pensador catalán-hindú: la perspectiva cosmoteándrica de Raimon Panikkar, la respectividad y relatividad radical de Zubiri, y la relatividad ontológica o correlacionismo universal de Amor Ruibal.