From dialogue to meeting

Andrés Torres Queiruga’s theology of religions and the pluralist principle

Abstract

The text presents research results on the possibilities of approximation between Andrés Torres Queiruga’s theology of religions and the pluralist principle. Methodologically, the analysis and presentation of the results are structured in the following steps: (i) identification of the aforementioned approaches, especially the perspective of overcoming traditional models for evaluating the salvific data, such as inclusive and pluralist, using their border areas; (ii) distinction between the notions of dialogue, which may imply a connotation of a truth that is already fully owned and which will be ‘negotiated’ with the other, and that of encounter, which more intensely suggests a way out of oneself, uniting to the other to go in search of what is on the horizon of both; (iii) explanation of the view that it is in the solidary and respectful sharing of the Mystery that religions will contribute to the genuine perception of revelation and the consequent healthy relationship between them; (iv) description of the categories of asymmetric universalism, Jesusic theocentrism and inreligionation for the task of interpreting revelation; and (v) emphasis on the notion that authentic identities are forged in encounters, in respect and in the relationship of alterity between different ones, as highlighted by the pluralist principle.