| Item Description: | Research presented at a two-day conference held in Ghent, Belgium, in May, 2013. The conference was organized in order to reflect on the major themes of an interdisciplinary research project also entitled "The normativity of history," and included participants from the Faculty of Thelogy and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven. The thematic scope of this volume includes questions concerning tradition and its development, the present context of plurality and its challenges for discerning a theological epistemology of tradition-bound truth, and the challenges of religious diversity for contemporary theology. As a whole, these reflections suggest that the force and weight of history must be adequately accounted for when attempting to answer theological questions in a manner that does justice to a tradition that is very much embedded in and shaped by the complexities manifest in its living and at times, ambiguous history. |
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