Contents:
1. One Confronts Many
Religious Pluralism: A Newly Experienced Reality
The Possibility and Necessity of a Unitive Pluralism of Religions
Threats and Opportunities for Christians
Part I Popular Attitudes Toward Religious Pluralism
2. All Are Relative
Ernst Troeltsch: Advocate for Many
Contemporary Theologians and Troeltsch
Are All Relative?
3. All Are Essentially The Same
Toynbee's Vision of the Oneness of Religions
Other Views of the Common Essence
All the Same?
4. Common Psychic Origin
Jung: The Common Source and Function of Religions
Other Psychological Views Harmonizing with Jung's
Common Psychic Origin?
Part II Christian Attitudes Toward Religious Pluralism
5. The Conservative Evangelical Model: One True Religion
Evangelical Christianity
Karl Barth: Advocate of the Conservative Evangelical Model
The Evangelical Model: Insights and Inadequacies
6. The Mainline Protestant Model: Salvation Only in Christ
Revelation - Yes!
Salvation - No!
Mission Theologians and the Mainline Protestant Model
The Mainline Protestant Model: Insights and Inadequacies
7. The Catholic Model: Many Ways, One Norm
Vatican II: A Watershed
Religions: Ways of Salvation
Recent Developments - Beyond Rahner
The Catholic Model: A Mainline Christian Model
The Catholic Model: Insights and Inadequacies
8. The Theocentric Model: Many Ways to the Center
John Hick: The Myth of the Incarnation
Raimundo Panikkar: The Universal Christ and the Particular Jesus
Stanley Samartha: The Relativity of All Revelations
Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Jesus Is Not the Final Messiah
Liberation/Political Theologies: Absolute Norms Are Unethical
Conclusion: An Evolutionary Shift in Christian Consciousness?
Part III A More Authentic Dialogue
9. How Is Jesus Unique? Toward a Theocentric Christology
A New Kairos, A New Christology
Uniqueness and New Testament Christology
Uniqueness and Exclusiveness
Uniqueness and Contemporary Understandings of Incarnation
Uniqueness and Liberation Christology
What about the Resurrection?
Conclusion: Uniqueness and Personal Commitment
10. Doing Before Knowing - The Challenge of Interreligious Dialogue
Dialogue as a Hermeneutics of Praxis
Dialogue Based on a New Model of Truth
The Need for a Global Theology
What Will Come? Is Jesus Unique?

Includes bibliographical references and index