Christianity and the Religions: From Encounter to Dialogue - Softcover

Dupuis, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0232524823 ISBN 13: 9780232524826

Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

In this incisive and important volume, Jacques Dupuis offers new insights on the most important issue facing Christian theology today -- giving an account of Christian faith as Christians go more deeply along the road of dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religious traditions. His task is to square a dogmatic circle. How does one do justice to the Gospel claim that Jesus the Christ is the final and universal savior of all humankind in every age, while also doing justice to the experience that truth, grace, holiness, and power are experienced in other religious traditions? In the first six chapters Dupuis reviews the history of the Western Christian tradition's teaching on other religious Ways through the breakthrough at Vatican Council II. In chapters 7 and 8 he reviews the critical issues of uniqueness of Christ and Christian proposals to account for the mediation of salvation in other religious Ways. He discusses also the relationship between the Reign of God, the Church, and the Religions. In chapter 9 he explores the nature and role of dialogue in a pluralistic society. In chapter 10 offers sage reflections on interreligious prayer.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacques Dupuis, S.J. is professor emeritus of theology at the Gregorian University and of the Vidyajyoti College of Theology, Delhi, India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0232524823
• ISBN 13: 9780232524826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288