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The Doctrines of a Religious Community About Other Religions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. A. Dinoia
J. A. Dinoia
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Assistant Professor of Theology, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C.
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A member of a religious community might have occasion to ask of the teachers in his community: What do we have to say about other religions? What is the value of their beliefs and ways of life as compared with ours? How are we to regard other religous people? How are we to act towards them?

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Religious Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 1982 , pp. 293 - 307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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page 294 note 1 An earlier version of this paper was presented before the Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion during the course of the 1980 annual meeting in Dallas, Texas.

page 295 note 1 In developing this account of the logic of ‘schemes of doctrines’ I have been aided at many points by Bochenski, J. M., The Logic of Religion (New York: New York University Press, 1965)Google Scholar; Smart, Ninian, Reasons and Faiths (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958)Google Scholar; and by Christian, William A. Sr, Meaning and Truth in Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Oppositions of Religious Doctrines (New York: Seabury, 1972)Google Scholar; ‘Bochenski on the Structure of Schemes of Doctrines’, Religious Studies, XIII (1977), 203–219.Google Scholar

page 297 note 1 I have advanced some suggestions in the field of theology of religions in ‘The Universality of Salvation and the Diversity of Religious Aims’, which will appear in the collected papers of the SEDOS Seminar on the Future of Mission (New York: Orbis Books, forthcoming) and more extensively in Catholic Theology of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue (Yale Ph.D. Dissertation, 1980).Google Scholar

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page 305 note 2 See Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition, vol. 1Google Scholar: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), pp.55–67.Google Scholar The standard historical account of Christian doctrines about other religions is Capéran, Louis, Le Problème du salut des infidèles. Essai historique (Toulouse: Grand Séminaire, 1934).Google Scholar

page 306 note 1 See Daniel, Norman, Islam and the West (Edinburgh University Press, 1958), pp. 184–94, 246–8.Google Scholar

page 307 note 1 I have in mind accounts of the doctrines about other religions in communities other than Christianity represented by works such as the following: Hamidullah, Muhammad, ‘Status of Non-Muslims in Islām’, Majallat al Azhar, XLV (1973), viii, 6–13; ix, 12–13Google Scholar; Friedmann, Yohanan, ‘Medieval Muslim Views of Indian Religions’, journal of the American Oriental Society, XCV (1975), 214–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Dhammananda, Sri K.., Why Religious Tolerance? (Kuala Lumpur: Buddhist Missionary Society, 1974)Google Scholar; Khantipālo, Phra, Tolerance: A Study from Buddhist Sources (London: Rider, 1964)Google Scholar; Katz, Jacob, Exclusiveness and Tolerance (New York: Schocken, 1962)Google Scholar; Schwarzschild, Steven S.., ‘Do Noachites Have to Believe in Revelation?’ Jewish Quarterly Review, LII (1962), 297–308; LIII, 30–65CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Sharma, Arvind, ‘All Religions Are - Equal? One? True? Same?: A Critical Examination of Some Formulations of the Neo-Hindu Position’, Philosophy East and West, XXIX (1979), 59–72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar