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Book SynopsisEdited by two of the most prominent names in interfaith dialogue, this is an introduction to the complex relationships between Christianity and the other world faiths. Featuring essays from some of the key thinkers in the Christian faith. It covers both Catholic and Protestant approaches, and features all the rival points of view, including the uncompromising absolutism of Karl Barth and Pope John Paul II, the more ecumenical approaches of Karl Rahner and Hans Kung, and the religious pluralism of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and John Hick, among others.
Table of ContentsKarl Barth - The Revelation of God as the Abolition of Religion. Karl Rahner - Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions. Vatican II - Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. Wilfred Cantwell Smith - The Christian in a Religiously Plural World. Aloysius Pieris - The Place of Non-Christian Religions and Cultures in the Evolution of Third World Theology; Leslie Newbigin - The Christian Faith and the World Religions. Hans K ng - Is There One True Religion? An Essay in Establishing Ecumenical Criteria. Paul Knitter Christian Theology of Liberation and Interfaith Dialogue. John Hick - The Theological Challenge of Religious Pluralism. J rgen Moltmann - Dialogue or Mission?; Christianity and the Religions in an Endangered World. Pope John Paul II - Address of the Holy Father to the Congregation or the Doctrine of the Faith, together with extracts from that Congregation's "Dominus Jesus" - On the Unity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church.
