ENTRE PLURALISMO CULTURAL Y CRISTIANISMO THEORY OF AESTHETIC RESPONSE, CONTEMPORARY WORLD AND FAITH. A KEY TO THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN CULTURAL PLURALISM AND CHRISTIANITY

Abstract

Conversations around Christianity as a form of monotheist and traditional religion, are problematic today. Any way of referring to Christianity is permeated by criticism, rejection or indifference before any totalizing basis of reality. This situation, which accommodates only pluralistic positions, is due to the failure of the great modern projects that gave meaning, such as nationalism, socialism and progress, which have failed on their attempt to solve the question of man. For Christianity, God’s revelation lies on the scriptures, the Bible would be the key to establish its particular ethos as a religion. For this reason, it is urgent to revalue it before a pluralistic context, gathe-ring the characteristics of the contemporary world on one hand and the qualities it possesses as a text on the other.In this sense, this research proposes Wolfgang Iser’s theory of aesthetic response as a method of biblical analysis, as it could validate the possibility for the existence of several interpretations of the Holy Scriptures, which constitutes a first point of approach between pluralism and the Christian faith.