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Key Questions for a Theology of Religions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Paul F. Knitter
Paul F. Knitter*
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Xavier University
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Horizons , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 92 - 102
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 1990

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References

1 Panikkar, Raimundo, “The Jordan, the Tiber, and the Ganges: Three Kairological Moments of Christie Self-Consciousness” in Hick, John and Knitter, Paul F., eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1987), 110.Google Scholar

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3 Soelle, Dorothee, Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984), 66.Google Scholar See also the soon to be published study of Mark Kline Taylor that seeks to balance theological concern for pluralism with that for domination and oppression: Remembering Esperanza: A Cultural-Political Theology for North American Praxis (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990)Google Scholar, ch. 1.

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6 See the essays of Ruether, Panikkar, Hick, Samartha, Driver, Yagi, Pieris, in Hick, and Knitter, , eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness; Michael AmaladossGoogle Scholar, “Faith Meets Faith,” Vidyajyoti 49 (1985): 109–17Google Scholar, and “Dialogue and Mission: Conflict or Convergence?” Vidyajyoti 50 (1986): 62–86;Google ScholarWilfred, Felix, “Dialogue Grasping for Breath? Towards New Frontiers in Interreligious Dialogue,” Federation of Asian Bishops Papers, No. 49 (1987), 35–52;Google ScholarSwidler, Leonard, “Interreligious and Interideological Dialogue: The Matrix for all Systematic Reflection Today” in Swidler, Leonard, ed., Toward a Universal Theology of Religion (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1987), 32–45;Google ScholarSchillebeeckx, Edward, “The Religious and the Human Ecumene” in Ellis, Marc E. and Maduro, Otto, eds., The Future of Liberation Theology: Essays in Honor of Gustavo Gutierrez (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989), 177–86.Google Scholar

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8 Schillebeeckx, 179-80, 182.

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13 Knitter, Paul F., “Dialogue and Liberation: Foundations for a Pluralist Theology of Religions,” The Drew Gateway 58 (1988): 1–53.Google Scholar