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The Ecumenical Route

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Christian Godin
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Ecumenicism is a synthesis of syncretism and universalism. It combines, in fact, the religious totalization of syncretism with the human totalization of universalism, using syncretism to correct what might be unilateral in the universal religion, and using universalism to complete what might be particularistic in syncretism.

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Diogenes , Volume 44 , Issue 175 , September 1996 , pp. 119 - 136
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Copyright © 1996 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Notes

1. Discours, V, 67 B ff.

2. The Universal Prayer

3. Dieu - Ascension dans les ténèbres - Les Voix, ninth fragment.

4. Herodotus identifies Osiris with Dionysius and Isis with Demeter.

5. Plutarch, Isis, quoted in: L. Gernet and A. Boulanger, Le Génie grec dans la reli gion, Paris, 1970, p. 386.

6. Quoted in: G.F.W. Hegel, Leçons sur l'histoire de la philosophie, Paris, 1975, Vol. IV, p. 912.

7. An independent nation today, Sri Lanka's history is nevertheless pervaded by the influence of Indian culture. See the article by A. Abeydeera in: Diogenes, No. 159 (1992).

8. Or: Abu'l Fazl.

9. Quoted in: R. Grousset, Figures de proue, Paris, 1949, p. 320.

10. L. Bazin, "L'unité de l'homme dans la pensée turco-mongole," in: Diogène, No. 140 (1987), p. 33.

11. Ibid., p. 35.

12. Ibid.

13. Furthermore, this kind of dialogue, imagined or real, between scholars of divergent faiths is a topic quite common to the Middle Ages. Thus Reuchlin in his De Verbo Mirifico set up a dialogue between a pagan philosopher, a Jew and a Christian.

14. R. Lulle, Le Livre du gentil et des trois sages (ed. by D. de Courcelles), Paris, 1992, pp. 18f.

15. Ibid., p. 235.

16. Ibid., p. 237.

17. M. de Gandillac, La Philosophie de la ‘Renaissance'. Histoire de la philosophie, Paris, 1973, Vol. II, p. 32.

18. See E. Wind, Mystères païens de la Renaissance (transl. by P.-E. Dauzat), Paris, 1992.

19. The full title is: Colloquium Heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis (Colloquium among Seven Sages on the Hidden Secrets of Sublime Matters).

20. Quoted in: E. Bréhier, Histoire de la philosophie, Vol. I: Antiquité et Moyen Age, new ed., Paris, 1985, p. 690.

21. F. Schlegel, Entretien sur la poésie (transl. by. L. Larbathe and J.-L. Nancy), in: L'Absolu littéraire, Paris, 1978, p. 312.

22. F.E.D. Schleiermacher, Discours sur la religion (transl. by. I.J. Rouge), Paris, 1944, p. 289.

23. We should remind ourselves of the word's etymology: all the gods.

24. G.W. Leibniz, Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois (transl. by C. Frémont), Paris, 1987.

25. Ibid., p. 35.

26. Leibniz, Lettre à M. Rémond, p. 84.

27. Ibid., p. 95.

28. Ibid.

29. Ibid., p. 108.

30. In fact, by definition a religion cannot be philosophical.

31. Première journée, Troisième nouvelle, Paris, 1973.

32. "La religion dans les limites de la raison,' in: Oeuvres philosophiques (transl. by A. Philonenko), Paris, 1986, Vol. III, p. 201.

33. He died in 1908.

34. Bahaism originated in Babism which in its turn split off from Shi'ism. It should be noted that the syncretism of the Din-i-Ilahi is also of Shi'ite origin.

35. Bahaullah is the messenger of our time.

36. H. Dreyfus, Essai sur le baha'isme, Paris, 1962, p. 58.

37. Included in his posthumous work Philosophie de la Révélation.