The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity - Couverture souple

D'Costa, Professor In Catholic Theology Gavin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1570753032 ISBN 13 : 9781570753039

Editeur : Orbis Books, 2000

Synopsis

Shows that many so-called pluralist theologies are actually masks for a secularizing agenda and that the doctrine of the Trinity holds more potential for interreligious understanding and dialogue. D'Costa recommends the Trinitarian approach which attains the goals that pluralism seeks: openness, respect, and learning from other religions. It accomplishes this without the reductionism associated with pluralism and by examining the serious differences between traditions. He applies the Trinity to interreligious prayer with surprising results.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the most discussed topics of our time is Christianity's relation to other religions. In this important new book, one of Britain's leading contemporary theologians develops a sharp and penetrating critique of the pluralist position. In the tradition of Alasdair MacIntyre and John Milbank, D'Costa shows that too often it masks a secularizing agenda, traceable to the worst
apects of Enlightenment modernity.

Even by its own criteria, pluralism does not succeed. D'Costa demonstrates this by exploring the 'meeting of the religions' in its
leading exponents from Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. He discovers the influence of Western modernist thought or else a veiled exclusivism not only in Hick, Knitter, Cohn-Sherbok and Panikkar, but even in Radhakrishnan and the Dalai Lama. He then goes on to establish an alternative Trinitarian approach to interreligious prayer and tolerance, drawing on recent discussions of other
religions as 'vehicles of salvation'. The final section of the book represents the first major systematic theological study of interfaith
prayer.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr Gavin D'Costa is Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Bristol, England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orbis Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570753032
• ISBN 13: 9781570753039
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 187
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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