Exploring Religious Pluralism

How can we more deeply understand religious pluralism? In this study, Christopher C. Knight suggests that current explorations of religious pluralism may be supplemented by combining new thinking about divine action with the kind of 'mystical theology' that sees doctrinal statements as aids to contemplation rather than as philosophical truth claims. While Knight sees the 'perennialist' tradition of pluralistic thinking as deeply flawed, he nevertheless proposes that we can adopt a kind of neo-perennialism in which the supposed incompatibilities of different faith traditions may still be seen in the way that perennialists have usually considered them: as relating only to the exotericdimension of religious faith and practice. In this way, he suggests, the perennialist notion of esoteric ecumenism may still be valid. He cautions, nevertheless, that at a methodological level, there may be defensible reasons to hesitate before adopting a full-blown pluralism of this kind.

Author: Christopher C. Knight
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/21/2024
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781009450263

About the Author
Knight, Christopher C.: - Christopher C. Knight is a Senior Research Associate of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, England. Formerly the Executive Secretary and current Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion, he is the author of Wrestling with the Divine (2001), The God of Nature (2007), Science and the Christian Faith (2020) and Eastern Orthodoxy and the Science-Theology Dialogue (Cambridge University Press 2022).

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