Religious Experience and Interreligious Dialogue

Abstract

The paper will display the condition of a true interreligious dialogue and identify it in the fact of the human experience of evil. The first part will describe the approach taken, i.e. the approach of philosophy of religions. The second part will discuss two mistakes in the development of an interreligious dialogue. The third part of the paper will clarify the concept of “universality” and develop it in the direction of a true “universalizability”. In the fourth part, the common function of every world religion will be defined as a response to the experience of evil. Finally, starting from this function, the fifth part of the paper will justify the possibility of a successful dialogue among different religions.