Biography and Autobiography

Challenge of Nonfoundationalism to Indian Christian Theology

Dare of Nonfoundationalism to Indian Christian Theology
T. Jacob Thomas

Introduction
The prime nonfoundationalist position is that there are no fixed or absolute prevalent foundations for knowledge. Knowledge exists in meticulous cultural and linguistic communities and such knowledge does not prerequisite any validation from out side its community. The nonfoundationalist approach would improve us to think about reality in a different way, not in fixed categories but in an interconnected, individualistic web of existence. With regard to theology of religions nonfoundationalism can sustain the truth claims of different religions and earn religions coexist in a galactic world, rejecting a monistic and centred excellent. It can also provide sufficient strategical validity to contextual theologies in India like Dalit or tribal theology in their strain to find a place in the vast spectrum of knowledge formations. Chief Western epistemological schools like rationalism, empiricism and idealism as well as the Indian advaitic instruct have been basically concerned with universal validation of intelligence. The nonfoundational or antifoundational rejection of any absolute or unlimited claims of truth, would help the emergence and justification of contextual contested expertise theories. Postfoundationalism attempts to combine both foundationalist and nonfoundationalist approaches to intelligence. It affirms the foundationalist vision of truth as obligatory but holds that our current knowledge is not final; hence object for any metanarrative is out of place. However, several people see nonfoundationalism nihilistic. In discipline to understand the role of nonfoundationalism constructively we will first scan the major traditions in philosophy and theology which were foundationalistic and then the tenets of nonfoundationalism will be looked into. For all time some modern nonfoundationalist heologies will be evaluated for their point in the Indian context.
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