This article explores Ernst Troeltsch’s potential contribution to a Christian public theology. It does so by way of a case being made for a public comparative theology. For this purpose I reconsider investigating Troeltsch’s sociological method through a critical hermeneutic lens provided by Hans G. Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Jurgen Habermas’ sociology of a lifeworld. Through this hermeneutical mediation I propose a more comprehensive understanding of Troeltsch’s project, and how it can bring relevancy to a public theology that takes into account the comparative study of religions in our pluralist context. Troeltsch’s work will thus be hermeneutically refined in a socially responsible manner in keeping with the reality of multiple modernities and the religious humanism in our contemporary context.

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构建公共比较神学：通过批判性诠释学的视角审视 Ernst Troeltsch

本文探讨 Ernst Troeltsch 对基督教公共神学的潜在贡献。它是通过为公共比较神学建立一个案例来实现的。为此，我重新考虑通过 Hans G. Gadamer 的解释学和 Jurgen Habermas 的生活世界社会学提供的批判性解释学视角来研究 Troeltsch 的社会学方法。通过这种诠释学的调解，我建议更全面地理解 Troeltsch 的项目，以及它如何为考虑到多元背景下宗教比较研究的公共神学带来相关性。因此，Troeltsch 的作品将以对社会负责的方式在解释学上加以完善，以符合当代背景下多重现代性和宗教人文主义的现实。