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Dimensions of Truth in Faiths: Exploring Analytical Approaches

Join Professor Karl Ernst Nipkow in this keynote lecture as he explores the different dimensions of truth in various faiths. Discover the analytical approaches to understanding truth as facts, interpretation, experience, disclosed reality, and relation to a person. Explore the role of truth in religious education and the challenges of handling truth claims. Dive into the discourse on religious truth in instructional settings, and examine ways to avoid indoctrination while promoting self-development, neutral analysis, and common moral values. Learn about the principles of dialogue, including mutual understanding, expressing religious convictions, pluralism, educational productivity of differences, tolerance, refusal to dialogue, and examples of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith dialogue.

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Dimensions of Truth in Faiths: Exploring Analytical Approaches

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  1. Faiths in DialogueTruth and Living Belief Systems Keynote Lecture #2 Professor Karl Ernst Nipkow Friday August 31st

  2. I Dimensions of Truth – an Analytical Approach • 1. Truth as true facts • 2. Truth as adequate interpretation • 3. Truth as certain experience • 4. Truth as convincingly disclosed reality • 5. Truth as reliable relation to a person

  3. II Truth and religious education 1 • 1 Handling truth claims as a multi-dimensional task • (1) Empirical and historical testing of fact-related truth claims • (2) Looking for coherent interpretations • (3) Tracing back truth claims to truth experiences • (4) To learn about personal truth through persons • 2 Bracketing the issue of religious truth in instructional discourse? • (1) The sectarian argument • (2) The laicist argument • (3) The pluralist argument

  4. II Truth and Religious Education 2 • 3. Escaping normative issues in RE? • (1)Avoiding indoctrination on a false assumption • (2) Recasting faiths as material of self-development • (3) Assimilation of faiths to the tools of their neutral analysis • (4) Moral values as common ground

  5. III Principles of dialogue (1) Mutual understanding by starting from faith as the centre of each religion (2) Expressing one’s religious conviction and standpoint (3) The strong picture of pluralism and the principle of truthfulness (4) The educational productivity of religious differences (5) How to tolerate the intolerant? – dialogue at stake (6) Refusal to dialogue and ideology critique (7) Christians and Jews, Christians and Muslims – examples for the specific character of each faith dialogue

  6. Faiths in DialogueTruth and Living Belief Systems Keynote Lecture #2 Professor Karl Ernst Nipkow Friday August 31st

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