Religious Pluralism and Theology
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- Religious Pluralism and Theology
- Religious Pluralism
- Problems: Epistemology, Soteriology
- Necessary and sufficient conditions
- Gavin D'Costa
- Sola Christus
- Extra ecclesiam nulla salus
- Fides ex auditu
- God and creation
- Eschatology
- Sin and election
- Theological Exclusivism
- Restrictive Access Exclusivism
- Salvation only possible by directly hearing the Gospel and accepting baptism
- Middle Knowledge
- God knows all that could happen
- Midway between natural and free knowledge
- Universal Access Exclusivism
- Preparation: sensus divinitatus; devotion through non- Christian means
- Life after death: possible to encounter Gospel in hell or purgatory
- God wills the redemption of everyone
- The R.C Church: Other religions lack the controlling beliefs
- Dominus Iesus: reasserts and clarifies that the Catholic Church is one true Church or Christ
- Unicity: Oneness or singleness
- Karl Barth
- Restrictive Access Exclusivism
- Theological Inclusivism
- Karl Rahner
- Structural Inclusivism: any religion with structures open to God's grace can receive God's salvation
- Human knowledge limited and finite; can only have unconditional openness to existence; all humans desire grace and salvation
- Anonymous Christianity: refers to any religious institution which practices and values are means of grace
- Karl Rahner
- Theological Pluralism
- There are many ways to salvation, not just one path
- Unitary Theological Pluralism
- John Hick
- Kant and the an-Sich: epistemological distinction between noumenal and phenomenal knowledge
- Wittgenstein, religious experience, and seeing-the-world-as: duck rabbit picture
- Morality and the reality centred life: all authentic religions uphold the categorical imperative
- Theocentric not Christocentric; myth of Jesus' divinity; Jesus as a gift to the world
- John Hick
- Pluriform theological pluralism
- Many 'reals' as they are experienced by each religion
- Each religion has own authentic form of salvation, liberation, or knowledge
- Keith Ward
- Ethical Theological Pluralism
- Paul Knitter
- All religions share a soteriological aim of liberating humans
- Religious Pluralism
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