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Book SynopsisIn his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue.
Trade Review"Social scientists spent most of the past century trying to work out why the world was failing to live up to their expectations: why was there still so much rural idiocy, and why was religion refusing to go away? No one has brought more intellectual heft to these problems than Jürgen Habermas."
Jonathan Rée, New Humanist "A very significant contribution to the renewed faith–reason dialogue."
Reviews in Religion and Theology
"The book contains five insightful essays and begins with an excellent overiew of Habermas's new view of religion, its development, and the subsequent discussion."
The Ecumenist
"The value of this slim but suggestive volume lies as much in what it does — bringing the voices of reason and faith together in respectful debate — as in what it says. If not more so."
Common Knowledge
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vi
Preface vii
1 Habermas and Religion 1
MICHAEL REDER AND JOSEF SCHMIDT, S. J.
2 An Awareness of What is Missing 15
JÜRGEN HABERMAS
3 On the Attempt to Recall a Relationship 24
NORBERT BRIESKORN, S. J.
4 How Far Can Faith and Reason Be Distinguished? 36
MICHAEL REDER
5 Postmetaphysical Reason and Religion 51
FRIEDO RICKEN, S. J.
6 A Dialogue in Which There Can Only Be Winners 59
JOSEF SCHMIDT, S. J.
7 A Reply 72
JÜRGEN HABERMAS
References 84
