Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Theology The Gifford Lectures-An Extended Edition

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A preliminary orientation ....1 Religious pluralism ...1 Interreligious theology ....8 Part one: Religious pluralism 2. Pluralist awakenings in christianity ....17 The emergence of the pluralist option ....17 Doctrinal presuppositions ....21 Saving faith ....22 The concept of God and divine revelation ....24 Jesus christ ..26 Prospects and developments ....28 3. Judaism and the many covenants ....32 A prelude to Jewish pluralism ...32 The traditional background ....34 Toward a theology of multiple covenants ...36 No religion is an island ...39 4. Submission to a divinely willed diversity: Islamic pluralism ....42 The meaning of islam ..43 Diversity and universality ...45 The impact of islamic mysticism ...48 5. Is hinduism a pluralist religion ....54 Vivekananda`s presentation of hinduism ....54 Some retrospective observations ....58 Pro-pluralist tendencies in hindu history ....58 6. The difficult road to pluralism in buddhism ....71 7. Pluralist inclinations in chinese religions ...90 8. From religious pluralism to interreligious theology ...109 9. Interreligious theology: Principlesand methodology ...130 10. The prophet and the son ...147 11. The son and the buddha ...164 12. The buddha and the prophet ....185 13. Toward an interreligious theology of creation ...204 14. A fractal interpretation of religious diversity ....222 Part two: Interrreligious theology