Lindbeck and Fideism II
If Lindbeck sometimes seems to suggest that people outside a given religion (qua cultural-linguistic system) are unable to speak coherently to it at all, his language is much more often superlative: “Those who are best able to judge in these matters… are those who have effectively interiorized a religion” (79), or to employ his more usual metaphor, those who have become fluent in the language. And again, “the experts must on occasion bow to the superior wisdom of the competent speaker who simply knows that such and such is right or wrong even though it violates the rules they have formulated” (82). But then the question is (and this is indeed the crucial question), who are ‘the experts’? Are they members of the church, insiders to the system, or might they be outsiders—like, for example, Slavoj Zizek to the Christian faith?
8 December 2006 |
tags: Ecumenism
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