Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

pt. 1 Religious pluralism

Pluralist awakenings in Christianity

Judaism and the many covenants

Submission to a divinely willed diversity: Islamic pluralism

Is Hinduism a pluralist religion

The difficult road to pluralist in Buddhism

Pluralist inclinations in Chinese religions

pt. 2 Interreligious theology

From religious pluralism to interreligious theology

Interreligious theology: principles and methodology

The prophet and the son

The son and the Buddha

The Buddha and the prophet

Toward and interreligious theology of creation

A fractal interpretation of religious diversity

Interreligious dialogue has encouraged many theologians in all major religious traditions to consider whether other religions may offer a different but nevertheless genuine and valid path of salvation or liberation. Perry Schmidt- Leukel, in this extended version of his 2015 Gifford Lectures, argues that this position--often called "religious pluralism"--must be developed within particular insights supplied by each of the major traditions. Although severe barriers to religious pluralism exist within each tradition, he shows nevertheless that possibilities for a pluralist understanding exist in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religions. Interreligious theology, he argues, carries the promise of being the theology of the future. (Publisher).