Christianity and Other Religions, New Edition: Selected Readings

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
RELIGION AS UNBELIEF......Page 12
TRUE RELIGION......Page 20
2 KARL RAHNER: Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions......Page 26
INTRODUCTION......Page 46
VARIOUS NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS......Page 47
THE JEWISH RELIGION......Page 48
ANY SORT OF DISCRIMINATION EXCLUDES UNIVERSAL......Page 50
4 WILFRED CANTWELL SMITH: The Christian in a Religiously Plural World......Page 51
THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS: CURRENT BOUNDARIES OF Orthodoxy......Page 66
TOWARD A THIRD WORLD THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS......Page 77
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA......Page 83
ISLAM IN IRAN......Page 84
HINDUISM IN INDIA......Page 85
BUDDHISM IN CHINA......Page 88
I. THE CHANGED SITUATION......Page 95
II. THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE......Page 99
III. THE EXCLUSIVIST POSITION......Page 100
IV. THE AFFIRMATION OF PLURALISM......Page 101
V. ‘PROVISIONAL PLURALISM’......Page 105
VI. ‘ANONYMOUS CHRISTIANITY’......Page 108
VII. ‘THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE’......Page 112
VIII. ‘BIBLICAL REALISM’......Page 114
IX. THE DRAMA OF SALVATION......Page 116
X. HOPE FOR A DIVINE CONSUMMATION......Page 118
XI. AN ECUMENICAL FAITH......Page 121
7 HANS KÜNG: Is There One True Religion? An Essay in Establishing Ecumenical Criteria......Page 125
I. ONE OR SEVERAL: A PRAGMATICSOLUTION ?......Page 126
II. FOUR BASIC POSITIONS......Page 128
III. THE KNOTTY QUESTION OF A CRITERION FOR TRUTH......Page 135
IV. THE HUMAN ELEMENT: GENERAL ETHICAL CRITERION......Page 137
IV. THE AUTHENTIC OR CANONICAL: GENERAL RELIGIOUS CRITERION......Page 142
VI. ON THE SPECIFICALLY CHRISTIAN CRITERION......Page 145
VII. ON THE WAY TO EVER GREATER TRUTH......Page 150
RESPONSE TO CRITICS OF PLURALIST THEOLOGY......Page 153
9 JOHN HICK: The Theological Challenge of Religious Pluralism......Page 163
INCLUSIVIST TYPE OF THEOLOGY......Page 167
A POSITIVE SUGGESTION......Page 175
10 JÜRGEN MOLTMANN: Dialogue or Mission? Christianity and the Religions in an Endangered World......Page 179
I. THE PRESENT STATE OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE......Page 181
II. MISSION IS THE INVITATION TO LIFE......Page 189
YOUR EMINENCES , VENERABLE BROTHERS IN THE EPISCOPATE AND THE PRIESTHOOD, DEAR FAITHFUL COLLABORATORS......Page 195
EXTRACTS FROM THE DECLARATION ‘DOMINUS IESUS’ ON THE UNICITY AND SALVIFIC UNIVERSALITY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHURCH......Page 198
Acknowledgements......Page 205
Bibliography......Page 207
Index......Page 221