Pluralism and society
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- Created on: 14-06-19 10:57
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- Pluralism + Society
- Christian response to multi faith soc.
- Christianity is not a lifestyle but a gift from God that they need to share w/ others
- Respects all traditions- "The Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in other traditions
- Scriptural reasoning movement
- Began in 1990s between Jewish scholars and Christians which was opened up to Muslims
- Spread around UK and USA
- They identify a theme, find short scriptural passages and introduce them in its context and it's importance
- Criticism
- It relativises religious beliefs as it argues there is only truth in a context or environment
- The number of straight forward, obvious contradictions between scripture is outweighed by the similarities
- But it doesn't ignore reasons behind disagreements as it aims to solve them or simple disagree reasonably
- God is beyond adequate human description anyway
- Inter-faith dialogue
- sees its mission in relation to other faiths as respectful and sensitive evangelisation
- However, they are encouraged to talk to other religions
- Redemptoris Missio- "Other religions constitute a positive challenge for the Church"
- Argues that inter-faith dialogue should "be open to understanding those of the other party w/o pretence + close-mindedness"
- Christian response to multi faith soc.
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