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Title: Christianity and Other Religions by John Hick, Brian Hebblethwaite, Hick/hebblethwaite ISBN: 1-85168-279-1 Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Summary: Confronting the Exclusiveness of Christianity
Comment: This book considers, from the perspective of Christianity,
the salvation of souls who are religious, but whose religions are
not Christian. Are these people damned, because of the accident
of birth, geography, or other condition, rendering them shut off
from the saving grace of Jesus Christ? Or are they, somehow,
saved because of a genuine, though misguided, faith in whatever
their religions happen to be?
The world contains many more of God's creatures adhering to
other religions than there are Christians. How, then, can we
reconcile the Cross of Christ as the source of all grace with the
love of God who loves all creatures with an equal and unlimited
love?
One way is to agree that other religions are conditionally
true so far as they do not contradict the Christian message on
decisive points.
Another is to recognize that there are grace-filled elements
in other religions that lead the people to act like Christians,
worshipping the divine and loving their neighbors. Such persons
manifest the direct influence of the Spirit of Christ, and can be
reckoned as true Christians, even though they don't know it.
But is it not presumptuous to suppose that the only ways to
accommodate people of other religions are to impose conditions or
include them in ours as anonymous Christians? The will of those
who are, after all, not Christians, and do not want to be
Christians, is not respected. Although Christ taught us humility,
we have approached them with arrogance.
Indeed, rather than insisting that other people must attain
their salvation through Christ, can't we find something that
other religions have in common with Christianity whereby we can
accept their attainment of salvation on their own terms?
Perhaps we can find common ground in the religious urge to
relieve the pain and suffering of the countless poor and
downtrodden of the world? That is the basis of Liberation
Theology. Rather than Christ, or even God, if we center our
religious impulse on that kind of human salvation, especially for
those who, because of injustice are most in need of it, could we
not consider those religions which share that impulse to be on an
equal footing with us?
Another common ground could be the element found in most
major religions in which salvation consists of a radical
transformation from natural self-centeredness to a new
orientation centered in the divine or the transcendent. Just as
the Christian is saved by denying himself and following Christ,
other religions, to the extent that they have the same type of
salvific transformation, can be equally valid traditions which
stand between the individual and the divine. If you envisage
Christ as the lens through which we attain our awareness of God,
so the other religions are the lenses through which their
followers attain their awareness of the divine by whatever name
he or it is known.
These are some of the views presented in this volume which
is a revised edition of the book that was first published in
1980. Only four of the original eleven selections have been
retained. Globalization having made the issue more relevant than
ever, the eleven selections here contain a wealth of divergent
opinions making for exciting reading.
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Title: A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths by John Hick ISBN: 0664255965 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Fifth Dimension by John Hick ISBN: 1851681914 Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: God Has Many Names by John Hick ISBN: 066424419X Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: February, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent by John Hick ISBN: 0300050143 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: No Other Name?: A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions (American Society of Missiology Series, No 7) by Paul F. Knitter ISBN: 0883443473 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: February, 1985 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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