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Problems of religious diversity
Title:
Problems of religious diversity
Author:
Griffiths, Paul J.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Physical Description:
xv, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
1. Religious diversity -- Religion : some historical remarks -- Religion : a definition -- Diversity in religion -- Philosophical questions about religious diversity -- Standpoints and answers -- 2. Religious diversity and truth -- Religious claims : doctrines and teachings -- Assent and acceptance -- Truth, falsehood, incompatibility -- Parity with respect to truth : a Kantian view -- Parity with respect ot truth : a Wittgensteinean view -- Parity with respect to truth : nonreligious views -- Difference with respect to religious truth : exclusivism -- Difference with respect to religious truth : inclusivism -- A Catholic Christian argument for open inclusivism -- 3. Religious diversity and epistemic confidence -- Epistemic confidence -- Awareness of diversity -- Religious responses to the question of epistemic confidence -- Privatization -- The epistemic significance of religious diversity : a Christian view in conversation with William Alston -- 4. The religious alien -- Toleration : enduring the religious alien -- Separation : isolating the religious alien -- Conversion : domesticating the religious alien -- Christian evangelism -- 5. The question of salvation -- Pluralism -- Exclusivism -- Inclusivism -- Restrictivism and universalism.
ISBN:
9780631211495

9780631211501
Format :
Book