Interiorism

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As Interiorismus denoting Christian theology to define the relationship of the Christian message to non-Christian religions , which differ from the usual models of exclusivism , of inclusiveness and pluralism is different.

Interiorism does not represent a fourth classification model within the pre-understanding of the usual three models, but rather aims to bring the Christian understanding of non-Christian religions to the fore beyond this pre-religious understanding. In interiorism, an attitude of superiority towards other religions is avoided as well as a relativization of one's own religious claim to truth. Christian interiorism thus recognizes other religions not only partial, but equally unsurpassable truth. His methodological starting point is the radical problematization of the concept of revelation due to the philosophical insight into the one-sidedness of the real relation of everything created to God ( Thomas von Aquin , Peter Knauer ). The Christian message answers this problem with its Trinitarian understanding of God . According to the representatives of interiorism, a real relation of God to the created can be asserted solely on the assumption of this understanding of God. Only in this way does the term “ Word of God ” get a meaning that can be understood at all. Then the canonical relationship of the New to the Old Testament is, from an interiorist point of view, the theological paradigm for the relationship of Christianity to other non-Christian religions, because Christianity is the only religious message that addresses the problem of revelation, which is based on the one-sided relationship of creation to God Answer.

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literature

  • Gerhard Gäde : Christ in the religions. Christian Faith and the Truth of Religions . 2nd Edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010.
  • Gerhard Gäde: Interiorism. A suggestion for a way out of the religious-theological impasse . In: Theology of the Present . No. 46 , 2003, p. 14-27 .
  • Peter Knauer : Christ in Religions: Interiorism . In: Freiburg journal for philosophy and theology . No. 51 , 2004, p. 237-252 .