Le christianisme et les autres religions

Abstract

The question concerning the relationship between Christian religion (held as true and salutary in God's coming among us in His Christ) and other religions, has always been a difficult and délicate one. Even more so, answers of a narrow intolérance as well as those over-relativism, are rendered impossible today because of the présence in our midst of other religions and of the cultural fact of the respect of others. We thought that a first step, therefore partial and thus to be continued, wouldbe to look within christianity rather thanfrom a Sirius' point of view for éléments manifesting a kind of internai «relativising» of christianity by itself. The sixfields of « immanence », as we have called them, (negative theology ; eschatological réservation ; trinitarian doctrine ; composition of the corpus of the Scriptures ; concern about a «natural» theology outside révélation ; fight against its own risks ofidolatry) are only but a first «removing ofstrain» ofthe question. Thus a new epistemological key callingfor a continued research. Our own thought would be misunderstood if one would not add to it the considérations we publish in La foi et le temps, under the title : « Why I believe in the God of Jésus Christ».