Auf dem Weg zu einer christlichen Theologie des religiösen Pluralismus: die religionstheologischen Positionen Jacques Dupuis' und John Hicks im Vergleich
In the ongoing debate between inclusivism and pluralism in the theology of religion two positions deserve special interest. This is on the one hand the pluralistic theology of John Hick who sees the world religions as different human responses to the same ultimate divine Real that reveals itself in...
| Published in: | Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie |
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| Subtitles: | Titelzusatz:125 Jahre$d1877-2003 |
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| Format: | Print Review |
| Language: | German |
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2003
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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| Review of: | Toward a Christian theology of religious pluralism / Jacques Dupuis (Heller, Christian) Interpretation of religion / John Hick (Heller, Christian) |
| IxTheo Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Dialogue B Pluralism B World Religions B Weltreligionen B Festschrift B Theology of religions B Christianity B Religious pluralism |
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| Summary: | In the ongoing debate between inclusivism and pluralism in the theology of religion two positions deserve special interest. This is on the one hand the pluralistic theology of John Hick who sees the world religions as different human responses to the same ultimate divine Real that reveals itself in all of them through different personal godheads or impersonal realities. On the other hand Jacques Dupuis has offered a very interesting proposal of a Christian theology of religious pluralism. He seeks to find a positive value in the fact of religious pluralism as such — one of the major drives of the pluralists — and to combine this value with a decisive, foundational and unsurpassable role of the Christ-event in the history of God's salvific dealing with humankind. His understanding of the economy of salvation as a multifaceted yet at the same time structured history gives him the possibility of appreciating the religions as different ways of revelation, as different paths to God, as conveying different insights in the mystery of God while at the same time holding on to the belief that God has revealed himself in Christ in a special, culminating, universal and decisive way. Hick and Dupuis both appreciate the positive value of religious pluralism as such, both lay stress on the universality of God as well as on the particularity of Jesus. Hick and Dupuis differ concerning the personal identity of Jesus Christ with God's Son, the constitutive significance of Jesus for the salvation of humans and the belief that the trinity is the most adequate way of describing and imagining the ultimate divine reality. These beliefs which form the basis of Dupuis' position lead to a decisively different understanding of the relation of Christianity to other religions than is proposed by Hick in that the religions are in Dupuis' view different paths to salvation which however cannot have the same value. |
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| ISSN: | 0044-2895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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