ABSTRACT
Van Huyssteen seeks to develop a postfoundationalist notion of rationality which will first, fully acknowledge contextuality and the embeddedness of both theology and the sciences in the different domains of human culture;second, affirm the epistemically crucial role of interpreted experience and the way that tradition shapes the epistemic and non-epistemic values that inform our reflection about both God and our world;third, at the same time creatively point beyond the confines of the local community, group, or culture, toward plausible forms of transcommunal and interdisciplinary conversation. There is indeed a complementarity between theology and science and an interdisciplinary search for deeper meaning, in which the various human cultures, social, political and scientific, are the necessary discussion partners of an intercultural theology. The chapter suggests that areas of the theory and practice of theology which would be compatible with such an endeavour. The metamodern acknowledges both the advantages and the disadvantages of the traditional ontological categories of the European tradition.
