RT Article
T1 Indeterminacy, Ultimacy, and the World: the Self-Creation of Religious Pluralism through Community and Creation
JF Sophia
VO 49
IS 1
SP 49
OP 63
A1 Chicka, Benjamin James
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785590766
AB Common arguments for truth in religious pluralism absolutize an ultimate or lived component of religion, reducing a positive affirmation of plurality to deeper unity or exclusion. The arguments of John Hick, William Connolly, Nicholas Rescher, and S. Mark Heim fall into such a trap. By considering how an indeterminate concept of ultimacy, proposed by Robert C. Neville, fares against the problems their arguments raise, it will be shown that such a concept of ultimacy can both give rise to and grow out of communal experiences and the nature of the world. The indeterminate ultimate, communal experiences, and the world pluralize themselves once understood in mutual relation.
K1 Ultimate Reality
K1 Pragmatism
K1 Charles Peirce
K1 Robert Neville
K1 Inclusivism
K1 Pluralism
DO 10.1007/s11841-009-0152-1