No Other Name?: A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions
(Part of the American Society of Missiology Series)
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Book Overview
An honest discussion regarding how devout Christians should react to the academic evidence and genuine personal experience that other religious ways result in engaged, loving and moral lives. Does being saved, by the Christian definition, require a faith in Jesus Christ - meaning the historical person - or rather is it only important that human beings life their lives in accordance to His teachings. This books argues that one can be committed to a savior of some other name, and simultaneously be aligned with Christian theologically and commitment.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0883443473
ISBN13:9780883443477
Release Date:February 1985
Publisher:Orbis Books
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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a flawed but pioneer work of interreligious dialogue
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
As a practicing Christian and Bible teacher and writer, I add my review to note how the "one star" reviews below indicate how needed Knitter's book is. The other reviewers' "answer" to the question is a flat: "no dialogue: Christianity must win!" There is no place for this kind of triumphalism in a world rife with inter-religious violence. Knitter is an excellent writer and deeply believing Christian. If his book is flawed (and it is, with the benefit of 20 years of hindsight), it is partly because the conversation had been repressed for so long. His proposal is modest and one which Jesus would surely have admired as an attempt to find the common quest for God in many different people. The one thing I agree with the other reviewers on is Knitter's attempt to relativize the Resurrection. As Paul says so clearly (and witnessed to so strongly in his life), if Jesus isn't truly risen, there is no reason to risk one's life as a Christian. But that truth certainly doesn't exclude the possibility of the one God being revealed by other means in other times and places.
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