KONTRIBUSI HERMENEUTIK HANS-GEORG GADAMER BAGI DIALOG ANTARAGAMA DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Abstrak This article aims to explain the role of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic in Interreligious Dialogue. There is a fundamental thing in dialogue that anyone will face principles different from other religions. Therefore, In interreligious Dialogue, everyone or a religious person must be courageous to conversation their difference with the other religious person. The fundamental thing of Interreligious dialogue is how to understand difference and recognition. To answer this question, the efforts to develop a hermeneutical of Gadamer to understand others in dialogue is crucial. This article uses a library or literature study approach. Data collection was obtained from the main work of Gadamer, entitled "Truth and Method," in addition to later writers who developed Gadamer’s ideas. Forth, the data was analyzed and used as a source for interreligious dialogue thinking. The result of Gadamer’s hermeneutic contributed to the perspective of certain differences to understand diversity. Furthermore, his hermeneutic emphasized the perspective of dialogue in a temporal area not only belongs to intellectual but also belongs to non-intellectual.