Postmodern radical theology sets out in search not of rational universality but of hermeneutic universality, let us say the universal of universal hospitality, where “universal” means being willing to talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime, and “rational” means that there is nothing that cannot in principle be discussed. Hermeneutic universality means accepting universal risk, being willing to put one's own presuppositions at risk, as Gadamer said,8 and to give a hearing to anything that puts them into question, to say that perhaps the other one knows something I do not know and is going to say
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