In Good and Generous Faith : Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism

by Cracknell, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780829817218
• ISBN10: 0829817212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Pilgrim Pr

Summary

If Christians are to enter interfaith dialogue in good faith, they need to have some basic theological principles to guide them in this process. In this much needed resource, Cracknell, who has been engaged with such issues for nearly 40 years, suggests fruitful new ways of approaching basic biblical and theological themes that show how Christians can engage people of other faiths without being unfaithful to the Bible or their own theological inheritance.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	iv
Acknowledgements	v
Foreword by Randy L. Maddox	vii
Preface	xi
Introduction	xvii
1 All the Peoples of God: A Salvation History for Religious Pluralism	3	(38)
2 The Universal Presence of the Word: A Christology for Religious Pluralism	41	(56)
3 In Order to Friendship: An Ethic for Religious Pluralism	97	(20)
4 Is Your Heart Right with My Heart? A Spirituality for Religious Pluralism	117	(26)
5 To Bear an Authentic Witness: A Missiology for Religious Pluralism	143	(34)
Appendix 1: Ambivalent Theology and Ambivalent Policy: The World Council of Churches and Interfaith Dialogue 1938-1999	177	(30)
Appendix 2: The Bossey Declaration: Religious Plurality and Christian Self-Understending	207	(18)
Notes	225	(28)
Further Reading	253	(2)
Index of Scriptural References	255	(4)
Index of Names and Subjects	259