Jürgen Habermas’ assessment of the rationality of religious convictions is ambivalent, as it oscillates between a postsecular appropriation of their semantic potentials and a fideistic insistence on their “discursive extraterritoriality.” In this article, I argue that Habermas’ fideistic portrayal of religious convictions is neither compatible with the overall argumentative architecture of his postsecular paradigm nor a logical consequence of Habermas’ philosophical framework in general. Instead, once his fideism is overcome, Habermas’ postmetaphysical discourse theory provides valuable resources for contemporary Catholic theology. This article thus offers both a theological assessment of Habermas’ view of religious belief and an argument for a Catholic appropriation of Habermas’ postmetaphysical thinking.

Jürgen Habermas 对宗教信仰合理性的评估是矛盾的，因为它在对其语义潜力的后世俗占有和对其“话语域外性”的信仰主义坚持之间摇摆不定。在本文中，我认为哈贝马斯对宗教信仰的信仰主义描绘既不符合他的后世俗范式的整体论证架构，也不符合哈贝马斯一般哲学框架的逻辑结果。相反，一旦他的信仰主义被克服，哈贝马斯的后形而上学话语理论为当代天主教神学提供了宝贵的资源。因此，本文既提供了对哈贝马斯宗教信仰观的神学评估，也提供了天主教对哈贝马斯后形而上学思想的挪用的论据。