TY - JOUR AU - Dausner, René PY - 2018/04/03 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Humanity and hospitality: An approach to theology in the times of migration JF - Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis JA - Scripta VL - 28 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.30674/scripta.70067 UR - https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/70067 SP - 51-67 AB - <p class="p1">In&nbsp;contrast to discourses on the relation between religion and violence, this project focuses on the biblical commitment that God can be understood as the one who ‘loves the stranger’ (Deut. 10:18). With regard to this central passage it will be asked what are the implications that this image of God can offer? In what way can monotheism be interpreted as ‘a school of xenophilia’ (E. Levinas)? What does the inclination of God to the stranger mean for the understanding of humanity, metaphysics, and migration? Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) has suggested that we understand metaphysics, in the context of the thinking of Levinas, as ‘an experience of hospitality’ (Derrida 1999a: 46). With regard to this idea, I would like to ask what role can (the question of) God play within the political, sociological, ethical, etc. discourses of diversity and migration?</p> ER -