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The God Who Is (Not) One: Of Elephants, Blind Men, and Disappearing Tigers
- Fordham University Press
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This chapter asks how religious plurality and pluralism may best be construed to avoid subsuming, erasing, or otherwise transcending the reality of concrete differences in a way that does an injustice to those inhabiting those differences. It proposes polydoxy as a philosophical and theological methodology that allows practitioners to be positively located within a concrete tradition in such a way that they can cultivate its "local" resources for the benefit-rather than the erasure or appropriation-of their various neighbors. It goes on to enact just such a cultivation of particularly Christian resources, employing Hegel and Whitehead (among others) to rethink the trinitarian inheritance in terms of what seems to be the more open, capacious, and hospitable concept of "deep dialectics".