A Protestant Theology of Religious Pluralism

Livingstone Thompson author Richard J Bonney editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang

Published:13th Jul '09

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In this book three main things have been accomplished. First, it locates the emergence of religious pluralism as a problem for Christian theology. Secondly, it shows the critical weaknesses in the approaches to pluralism that we find in the works of Gavin D’Costa, George Lindbeck and John Hick, all major players in the field of religious pluralism. Retrieving theological material from seventeenth-century Comenius and eighteenth-century Zinzendorf, the book shows that the Protestant tradition has suitable theological material that can better serve the development of a theology of religious pluralism. Thirdly, the book enters into dialogue with Islam and highlights exciting new approaches to addressing the issues of salvation, the Qur’an and Christology. One critical outcome of the book is that it breaks new ground in showing the limitations of liberation theology and proposes a fascinating, new, pluralism-sensitive hermeneutical approach to contextual theology.

«This is an excellent book, and a really worthy addition to the series.» (Professor Richard Bonney, Emeritus Professor, University of Leicester)
«This work is a fine piece of scholarship which retrieves an impressive body of theology and shows its relevance to today’s problems in an exemplary way.» (Professor John May, Irish School of Ecumenics, University of Dublin)

ISBN: 9783039118755

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 600g

395 pages

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