Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions: Jesus, Revelation & Religious Traditions

by McDermott, Gerald R.

• ISBN13: 9780830822744
• ISBN10: 0830822747
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Here is the beginning of an evangelical theology of religions that addresses the problem of truth and revelation, and takes seriously the normative claims of other traditions.

Author Biography

Gerald R. McDermott is associate professor of religion and philosophy at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(12)
Evangelicals & The World Religions	21	(24)
Historical Highlights	25	(3)
Theological Definition	28	(6)
Evangelicalism Versus Fundamentalism	34	(3)
Protestant Orthodoxy, Liberalism and Postliberalism	37	(2)
Evangelicals on the World Religions	39	(6)
What Is Revelation?	45	(28)
Definition	46	(2)
Media and Modes	48	(1)
Revelation in Nature?	49	(5)
The Nature of the Truth of Revelation	54	(7)
Dimensions of Revelation	61	(3)
The Interpretation of Revelation	64	(9)
Biblical Suggestions	73	(18)
God Wants the Gentiles to Know Him	74	(3)
Knowledge of God Outside the Hebrew and Christian Traditions	77	(3)
God's People Learn from Those Outside the Jewish and Christian Churches	80	(11)
Theological Considerations	91	(30)
Covenants and the Religions	96	(8)
Typology	104	(4)
Barth's Parables of the Kingdom	108	(2)
Once More: Revelation in the Religions	110	(4)
Why Would God Provide Such Types?	114	(7)
An Old Pattern: Christian Theologians Who Plundered The Egyptians	121	(12)
Saint Augustine	121	(3)
Thomas Aquinas	124	(5)
John Calvin	129	(4)
Buddhist No-Self & No-Mind	133	(24)
Different Visions	133	(3)
God Beyond Thoughts and Words	136	(4)
Contingency of World and Self	140	(3)
The Mystery of the Ordinary	143	(5)
The Compulsive Clinging of the Old Man	148	(3)
Sitting on the Cross	151	(2)
Finding the True Self	153	(1)
Two Final Notes	154	(3)
A Daoist Theology Of Camouflage	157	(14)
God in Camouflage	159	(6)
God's Paradoxical Ways	165	(6)
The Confucian Commitment To Virtue	171	(14)
China's Categorical Imperative	174	(5)
Zhong and Shu	179	(3)
Final Remarks	182	(3)
Muhammad & The Signs Of God	185	(22)
Some Surprises	187	(5)
Differences	192	(2)
Striking Lessons	194	(13)
In Conclusion: Objections & Responses	207	(14)
Appendix: God & the Masculine Pronoun	221	(6)
Index of Names & Subjects	227	(4)
Index of Scripture References	231