Re-viewing Christian Theologies of Religious Diversity: Some Lessons at/from the Margins
While Christian theology of religions fundamentally revolves around the questions of revelation and salvation, as some scholars have shown, context also plays an important role in dialoguing/engaging with other religions. However, these context-sensitive perspectives, which focus on common socio-eco...
| Subtitles: | In Honesty and in Hope: Rethinking Interreligious Engagement for Our Times |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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The ecumenical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 71, Issue: 5, Pages: 739-754 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Exclusivism
B Pluralism B Dalit Christianity B theology of religions B Interreligious Dialogue |
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| Summary: | While Christian theology of religions fundamentally revolves around the questions of revelation and salvation, as some scholars have shown, context also plays an important role in dialoguing/engaging with other religions. However, these context-sensitive perspectives, which focus on common socio-economic-ecological concerns and multiple identities that cut across religious boundaries, generally seem to promote a pluralistic position (for commendable reasons). But this need not always be the case. In contexts (like that of rural Dalit Christianity) where communities are marginalized and threatened, it might be necessary and justifiable to make claims of exclusivism; although what is (verbally) professed could be quite different from what is actually practised. Reflecting on these observations, this essay suggests the need for theologians of religions and dialogists to be (self-)aware of the critical and complex role that socio-political contexts play in terms of influencing and determining (their) theological approaches toward other religions. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12476 |