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Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (04)
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Paul Jang
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FOUR VIEWS ON SALVATION IN
A PLURALISTIC WORLD
1. Normative Pluralism (John Hick)
(1) All ethical religions lead to God as a result.
(2) Many religions are salvific (they have their own salvation programs).
(3) At times, someone appears to verge on the sort of relativism (Treoltch).
(4) But most contemporary pluralists do not appear the relativism.
(5) Saving religions are those involving a "transformation of human existence from self-centeredness to God- or Reality-centeredness."
(6) This definition contradicts a more traditional Christian and Muslim understanding of salvation.
(7) As a result, the term pluralism conceals its own normative truth-claims regarding religion.
(8) The challenge of other religions (how to adopt a pluralist understanding of the relation between Christianity and the other great world faiths)
1) Jewish synagogues, Muslim mosque, Hindu temples and so on.
2) Language, concepts, liturgical action, and cultural ethos differ widely from one another, yet from a religious point of view basically the same thing is going on in all of them, namely to open their hearts and minds to God.
3) God is known in various names as follows:
① in the synagogue as Adonai, the Lord God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob;
② in the mosques as Allah rahman rahim, God beneficient and merciful;
③ in the Sikh grudwaras as God, who is Father, Lover, Master, and the Great Giver, referred as war guru;
④ in the Hindu temples as Vishnu, Krishna (an incarnation of Vishnu), Rama, Shiva;
⑤ in many other religions as gods and goddesses, all of whom are seen as manifestations of the ultimate reality of Brahman;
⑥ in the Christian churches as the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy spirit. And yet all these religious communities agree that there can ultimately only be one God.
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Introduction
Theology 