Tussen secularisme en theologie: Repliek

Abstract

In reply to comments on my article ‘Can theological virtues be integrated in a secular moral philosophy?’ (same journal, same issue), I make 4 points: (1) My effort to find a position between secularism and theology show my critics to belong to either one of the extremes. (2) My approach is necessarily hermeneutic because (moral) experiences and meanings cannot be described in a pure phenomenology since they are always already contextualized in conceptual frameworks. (3) Although the theological virtues were ‘discovered’ in a religious framework and a theological conceptuality, they don’t necessarily disappear with those frameworks but can in principle be reframed. (4) The theological concept of grace could be reinterpreted in an ethics of passivity.