The Theological Challenge of Religious Pluralism

Abstract

In our own time a new challenge to the structure of Christian belief has come from our awareness, not merely of the existence of the other great world faiths — there is nothing new in that — but of their spiritual and moral power. The challenge is to the traditional assumption of the unique superiority of the Christian gospel, or faith, or religion. If I am right, we are in the early stages of an adjustment that may take another 50 or more years. This is the transition from a view of Christianity as the one and only true religion to a new Christian self-understanding as one true religion among others. This will certainly mean a considerable restructuring of Christian theology.KeywordsReligious ExperienceChristian TheologyWorld ReligionChristian BeliefReligious PluralismThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.