The Next Word: Tutu and Bakhtin on Dialogical Disagreement.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, "There is no final theology," by which he meant that every theology is partial, possibly expressing a valuable truth but never encompassing the totality of the truth. For Tutu, the way we go about navigating conflicts, in theology and beyond, involves a recognition...
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