This article discusses the thought of Abdulkarim Soroush on the relation between the truth claim of religious understanding and the emergence of religious authoritarianism. Truth claim can raise the tyranny of religion when there is an attempt at the ideologization of a religious understanding to political and power sphere. Some questions to be answered here include: why does religious truth cl…
Differences about Tafsir Ilmi in study of Islamic scripture have lingered academic dispute in Islamic scholarship. Mostly the debates arouse in the relation of Quran and the development of science due to dynamic and actuality of science itself. It so does if we look at Tafsir ilmi of ministry of religious affairs in epistemological perspective, eventually there are some debates about meaning an…