Forum: Religion and Communicative Reason The Significance of Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026) for Christian Ethics
Maureen Junker-Kenny
With his philosophy of ‘communicative reason’, Jürgen Habermas has elaborated a vast theory edifice: a normatively grounded, interdisciplinary and methodologically well-reflected framework of enquiries integrated by the principle of mutual recognition. As a model of philosophy that has forged connections between the human sciences, philosophical theories of language, intersubjectivity, law and democracy, as well as historical transformations in human self-understanding,1 it has proved inspirational for Christian ethics even before Habermas revised his position on religion.
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