Catholic Reasoning and Reading Across Traditions

Religious Commitment in Scriptural Reasoning: A Critical Engagement with Gavin D'Costa's “Catholics Reading the Scripture of Other Religions”

“…To the best of my knowledge there is no response to D'Costa that does exactly this, but there is some recent literature that comes close by discussing the compatibility of SR and post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism. 30 For his part, David Dault expounds a version of Roman Catholic scriptural interpretation, and theological reasoning that grows out of biblical reading, in such a way as to stress how it harmonizes with what happens in SR. In his essay, David Ford takes on the question of compatibility more fully, arguing that key themes of Vatican II-conversazione, ressourcement, and aggiornamento-are present, mutatis mutandis, in SR's drive to host a conversation among major religious traditions that returns to the Bible (and other scriptures) and deals with pressing challenges that face not only all of the traditions but the world as a whole.…”