Cosmopolitanism Quotes
Cosmopolitanism Quote of the day
We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.
We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today
I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.
Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective
New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_.
the overall theme of theology can be twofold: the search for meaning and the responsibility one has to the others.
Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.
_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?
Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.
Welcome to the 21st century cosmopolitan world where biased thoughts preside over unbiased deeds, simple gestures become overrated gossip materials and injustice is a part of long term justice.
How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?
Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.
I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.
The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.
Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.
I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.
Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.
Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people
Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.