Annotation
Theology and Humanism. According to the reviewers, Religion and the Human Future provides an excellent, well thought-out and well documented analysis of the current dilemma facing religions and religious people: At a time when discourse about religion seems polarized between fideistic theism and reductive secularism, Klemm and Schweiker provide an imaginative "third way," in the form of a robust theological humanism that draws on and transforms the rich resources of theological and humanist traditions.
The primary task of theology is to explore the truth about divine-human relationship - and not to justify the ends and means of particular religious (or secular) institutions or 'communities'. Theological Humanism is committed to critical and self-critical thinking about the potential of human beings to mature in God's universe where the integrity of all life is respected.
With limited endnotes and an engaging style, this carefully argued text succeeds in its attempt to be accessible to a wider audience.