D'Costa Christianity and World Religions

Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0836-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

An engaging and accessible introduction to Christianity'srelationship with other world religions, addressing the questionsof why the reality, and vitality, of other religions has become achallenge, and showing how Christianity is equipped to deal withreligious plurality at both the doctrinal and social level.
* * Timely and accessible, this book tackles the question of whythe reality, and vitality, of other religions has become achallenge for Christianity
* Makes a decisive contribution to debates about the clashbetween Islam and the West, arguing that the major threat toreligious freedoms come from secularism, and that Islam andChristianity both have the resources to develop a vibrant andpluralist public square; one informed by intellectual rigor anddebate
* Considers the wider issue of how modernity has defined'religion', and provides a substantial critique ofsecular ways of controlling religions
* Shows how Christianity is very well suited to deal withreligious plurality at the doctrinal and social level
* Addresses the core issues and describes the various answersthat have been proposed in recent years - making it an idealintroduction to the field, and one which will stimulate ideas anddiscussions

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Costa, Gavin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Charting the Territory: Theology of Religions
1.Early Map Making
Introduction
Pluralism
Inclusivism
Exclusivism
2. Changing the Angle: Recent Maps
Some Criticisms of the Threefold Typology
Comparative Theology
Postmodern Postliberalism
Part II: The Making and Meaning of Religions
3. Modernity's Story
Introduction
Modernity's Story about Religions
4. An Alternative: The Secular Construction of theSacred
Modernity as the Establishment of a New Ruling Religion
Conclusion
Part III: Religions in the Public Square
5. Whose Religion and Which Public Square?
The Public Square
A Taxonomy of Secular Modernity and Postmodernity
6. Christian and Muslim Public Squares
Roman Catholicism, Modernity and Religious Plurality
Islam, Reasoned Debate, and Religious Plurality
Part IV: Christ's Descent into Hell
7. Old Doctrines for New Jobs
Introduction
"The Descent": Introduction to the "Circles ofHell"
The Limbo of the Just and the Unevangelized
8. Further into the Inferno
Purgatory and the Non-Christian
The Children's Limbo
The Descent into Hell
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Works

Über Autor(innen)

Gavin D'Costa is Professor of Christian Theology at Bristol University. He also works with the Church of England and Roman Catholic Committees on Other Faiths, and the Pontifical Council for Other Faiths, Vatican City, advising these communities on theological issues. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Theology and the Public Square (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Sexing the Trinity (2000), and The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity (2000).