Deep Religious Pluralism

by Griffin, David Ray

• ISBN13: 9780664229146
• ISBN10: 066422914X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-03
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

A groundbreaking scholarly work,Deep Religious Pluralismis based on the conviction that the philosophy articulated by Alfred North Whitehead encourages not only religious diversity but deep religious pluralism. Arising from a 2003 Center for Process Studies conference at Claremont Graduate University, this book offers an alternative to the version of religious pluralism that has dominated the recent discussion, especially among Christian thinkers in the West, which has evoked a growing call to reject pluralism as such.Renowned contributors of a diversity of faiths include: Steve Odin, John Shunji Yakota, Sandra B. Lubarsky, Jeffery D. Long, Mustafa Ruzgar, Christopher Ives, Michael Lodahl, Chung-ying Cheng, Wang Shik Jang, and John B. Cobb Jr.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
References to Works of Alfred North Whitehead	xv
PART ONE Whitehead, Cobb, and Deep Religious Pluralism	1	(66)
1 Religious Pluralism: Generic, Identist, and Deep	3	(36)
David Ray Griffin
2 John Cobb's Whiteheadian Complementary Pluralism	39	(28)
David Ray Griffin
PART TWO Extending Cobb's Buddhist-Christian Dialogue	67	(42)
3 God as Peace-Bestowing Buddha/Christ: An Amplification of Cobb's Contribution to Dialogue between Christianity and Shin Buddhism	69	(22)
Steve Odin
4 Where beyond Dialogue? Reconsiderations of a Buddhist Pluralist	91	(18)
John Shunji Yokota
PART THREE Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish Versions of Deep Religious Pluralism	109	(132)
5 Deep Religious Pluralism and Contemporary Jewish Thought	111	(19)
Sandra B. Lubarsky
6 Anekanta Vedanta: Toward a Deep Hindu Religious Pluralism	130	(28)
Jeffery D. Long
7 Islam and Deep Religious Pluralism	158	(20)
Mustafa Ruzgar
8 Liberating Truth: A Buddhist Approach to Religious Pluralism	178	(15)
Christopher Ives
9 To Whom Belong the Covenants? Whitehead, Wesley, and Wildly Diverse Religious Traditions	193	(17)
Michael Lodahl
10 Toward an Integrative Religious Pluralism: Embodying Whitehead, Cobb, and the Yijing	210	(16)
Chung-ying Cheng
11 An Asian Christian Approach to Religious Pluralism	226	(15)
Wang Shik fang
PART FOUR Final Reflections	241	(22)
12 Some Whiteheadian Assumptions about Religion and Pluralism	243	(20)
John B. Cobb Jr.
References	263