Religious Pluralism and the Modern World

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Religious Pluralism: Some Issues; S.Sugirtharajah PART I: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Religious Pluralism and the Need for an Interreligious Theology; P.Schmidt-Leukel Which is it? Religious Pluralism or Global Theology?; M.McCord Adams Virtuous Comparativists are Practicing Pluralists; P.Knitter Pluralism Revisited; K.Ward Faith Triumphant? The Problem of a Theology of Supersession; J.Lipner PART II: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND PRACTICAL CONCERNS The Value of the Symbolic Jesus for Christian Involvement in Interfaith Dialogue; A.Race Interreligious Prayer between Christians and Muslims; G.D'Costa Interfaith Spirituality or Interspirituality? A New Phenomenon in a Postmodern World; U.King The Mahatma and the Philosopher: Mohandas Gandhi and John Hick and their Search for Truth; S.Sugirtharajah PART III: THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ORIENTATIONS John Hick: Theologian or Philosopher of Religion?; C.Gillis Humane Spirit - Towards a Liberal theology of Resistance and Respect; G.Newlands Mediating Relativism and Absolutism in Tillich's and Hick's Theories of Religious Truth; M.A.Stenger John Hick's Pan(en)theistic Monism; Y.Nagasawa Faith, Evidence, and Evidentialism; S.T.Davis Keeping Hick from Hell: Answering the Isolationist Objection to Hick's Universalism; T.Musgrove Suffering as Transformative: Some Reflections on Depression and Free Will; A.P.Scrutton PART IV: JOHN HICK'S WRITINGS AND THEIR IMPACT The Revival of Philosophy of Religion and the contribution of John Hick to this; P.Badham John Hick and Chinese Religious Studies; Z.Wang John Hick's Religious Interpretation of Religion: An Unexplored Resource for Religious Educators; G.Teece Index