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Pluralism and Theology Flashcards

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EXCLUSIVISM

DEFINITION

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  • Belief that only Christianity offers means of salvation

- Jesus is ‘the way’ not ‘a way’

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EXCLUSIVISM

CHRIST’S SACRIFICE

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  • Christ’s sacrifice unique

- Salvation only reach those who hear gospel and respond with faith e.g baptism

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EXCLUSIVISM

NARROW EXCLUSIVISM

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  • salvation only possible for those of particular denomination
  • Augustine and Calvin
  • Believed God only elects-through grace-a small number of Christians for salvation
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EXCLUSIVISM

CATHOLICS

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-Catholics believed there is no salvation outside of the church (extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
-View has been considered less narrow since book Lumen Gentium
‘Many elements of sanctification and truth are found outside of its visible structure’

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EXCLUSIVISM

BROAD EXCLUSIVISM

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  • salvation possible for all who accept Christ regardless of denomination
  • Other religions may contain some truth, but not enough for salvation
  • Gavin D’Costa asserted universal access exclusivism- salvation possible after death
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EXCLUSIVISM

HENDRIK KRAEMER
Non-Christian world

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  • Christian message in a non-Christian world
  • aimed to bring different denominations together
  • Worked among missionaries in non-Christian countries spreading message that salvation could only be achieved through conversion
  • We should evaluate other religions holistically
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EXCLUSIVISM

KARL BARTH
Importance of Christ

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  • importance of Christ for salvation
  • Humans can’t achieve on own
  • God can only be known where he chooses to reveal his knowledge through word e.g. Christ
  • Revelation always God’s choice
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EXCLUSIVISM

CHANGE IN ATTITUDE FOR CATHOLICS?

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  • Despite previous associations, attitudes began to change after Vatican II
  • Long series of meetings between 1962/5, where leading figures discussed Catholic Church into the modern world
  • Results were more positive and open response to other denominations and other world faiths
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INCLUSIVISM

INTRODUCTION

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  • Christianity if normative means of salvation but ‘anonymous Christians’ may also receive salvation
  • Salvation reached by those who turn in afterlife and those who follow God in wrong context, truth should be from Christ even if without realisation
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INCLUSIVISM

KARL RAHNER
Standard setting

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  • Christianity sets standard by which other religions should be measured
  • omnibenevolent God should offer salvation to those who have not been able to freely accept Christ
  • Christ holds truth but people can follow him unknowingly and still have relationship with God
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BIBLE AS SOURCE OF AUTHORITY

JOB 19:25

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Job appears to refer to Jesus ‘I know that my redeemer lives’

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BIBLE AS SOURCE OF AUTHORITY

MATTHEW 25:33-40

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The parable of the Sheep and the Goats implies anyone living by altruistic love is working for Christ whether they realise it or not ‘what you do for the least person, you do for me’

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RAHNER’S REJECTION OF EXCLUSIVISM

Do not hear Christ

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  • Rejected idea as some through no fault of own never hear the words of Christ and therefore never receive salvation
  • Does not seem in line with God’s omnibenevolent nature
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INCLUSIVISM

HANS URS VIN BALTHASAR

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  • Critic of the ‘anonymous Christian’

- Multi-Culturalism should not be an excuse to ‘water down’ the importance of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection

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PLURALISM

INTRODUCTION

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  • View that there are many ways to salvation
  • Christianity is one of these
  • Human culture causes differences in beliefs and practices, but religions share the same ultimate goal
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PLURALISM

KANT
Phenomenal world

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  • There is a difference between the noumenal world (reality) and phenomenal world (appears to us)
  • Nature of God belongs to the noumenal world
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PLURALISM

JOHN HICK
Copernican revolution

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  • Called for a ‘Copernican revolution’ I. Theology: to put God central rather than Christianity
  • This call away from a Christocentric approach is driven by our observations of the world, just as the cosmological Copernican revolution was
  • Religion phenomenal attempt to understand God by experience
  • All fall short of truth
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PLURALISM

HICKS DEMYTHOLOGIZATION

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  • Called got demythologization of bible
  • idea that gospels contain essential truths but revealed through myths
  • can be interpreted through the lens of different religions
  • Musical response depends on culture
  • Human projection shapes the experience but does not cause it
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PLURALISM

SUPPORT OF HICK
GLOBAL THEOLOGY

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-Hick’s theology allows for a global theology and does not exclude polytheistic or non-religions

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PLURALISM

SUPPORTING HICK
FEUERBACH

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-Religious belief is projection, no genuine external cause of religious experiences

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PLURALISM

PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENTS

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-If the ‘real’ is unknowable, we can’t say anything meaningful about it and it cannot be reveal deliberately to humans, this would make the revelation come from the human mind

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PLURALISM

OPPOSING HICK
INCARNATION

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-Incarnation is regarded as central to Christianity, affirmed in the creed, Hick challenges traditional doctrines

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PLURALISM

OPPOSING HICK
CHRISTIANS

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-might argue Hick undermines the essence of Christianity and reduces the Bible to fictitious morals

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PLURALISM

OPPOSING HICK
LEE STROBEL
Case for Christ

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‘The case for christ’ - the gospels are eyewitness documents but we know very little of his early life and gospels are written after his death

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PLURALISM

CONCLUSION OF HICK

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-Empirical evidence, practical considerations and philosophical logic lend themselves to a copernican revolution in theology

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PLURALISM

RSIMON PANIKHAR
Truth over claims

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  • We need to be open about truth rather than make claims
  • Life is ‘searching pilgrimage’ and we might need to let go of traditions to find our identity
  • Christophany is God’s way of making himself known
  • Religious pluralism is a spiritual position not an intellectual one
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PLURALISM

HICKS INFLUENCE BY KANT

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-Distinction between noumena and phenomena helps us comprehend how different religions be are talking about the same resist (noumena) but do so in different ways since our kind shaped our perception of our experiences (Plato)

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