The return of religion in politics is an important issue in a contemporary democracy. Franz Magnis-Suseno, a Jesuit, ethician and interfaith figure in Indonesia, provides a raft of interesting insights for interreligious dialogues in a pluralistic democracy. Through his publications, he seeks to assist Muslims and Christians to build an ethics of citizenship in a pluralistic democracy with the second Vatican theology of religions as his intellectual foundation. In this article, the author attempts to reconstruct the important points of Magnis-Suseno’s thoughts on dialogue ethics and identifies their relationships to the public reasoning of religions in a political public sphere. He comments that Magnis-Suseno demands more of religions than do Rawls and Habermas in terms of moderating their doctrinal positions vis-à-vis other religions.

宗教在政治上的回归是当代民主制的一个重要问题。印度尼西亚的耶稣会士，伦理学家和不同信仰的人物弗朗兹·马格尼斯-苏塞诺（Franz Magnis-Suseno）为多元民主中的宗教间对话提供了许多有趣的见解。通过出版物，他寻求以第二梵蒂冈宗教神学为基础，在多元民主中协助穆斯林和基督教徒建立公民道德。在本文中，作者试图重新构造马格尼斯-苏塞诺（Magnis-Suseno）对话伦理思想的要点，并确定其与政治公共领域中宗教公共推理的关系。他评论说，就减轻他们对其他宗教的教义立场而言，马格尼斯-苏塞诺比罗尔斯和哈贝马斯对宗教的要求更高。