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Religious pluralism raises the question of how one is to judge that which presents itself as a religion. Because religion can have a relatively great influence on how people behave, religious pluralism asks whether people can determine if certain traditions are constructive or destructive for their adherents and society. At the same time, one is faced with the intellectual challenge of whether people can determine from a general human standpoint which tradition is true or at least brings people closer to the truth.
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Paul Knitter, No Other Name? (New York: Orbis, 1985) p. 231.
Paul Knitter, ‘Toward a Liberation Theology of Religions’, The Myth of Christian Uniqueness, ed. John Hick and P. F. Knitter (New York: Orbis, 1987) pp. 183f. The following page numbers in the text refer to this work.
If, indeed, a ranking of religions is possible — cf. J. Hick, ‘On Grading Religions’, Religious Studies, vol. 17 (1981) pp. 451–67.
Hans J. de Wit, Leerlingen van de armen, (Amsterdam: VU Publishing, 1991), chap. 4.
John Hick, ‘On Grading Religions’, Religious Studies, 17 (1981) p. 461
cf. John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion, (London: Macmillan, 1989) pp. 300ff. The following page numbers in the text refer to this last work
Hans Küng, ‘What is True Religion? Toward a Ecumenical Criteriology’, Toward a Universal Theology of Religion, ed. L. Swidler (New York: Orbis, 1987), p. 242; cf. idem., Projekt Weltethos (Munich: Piper, 1990).
P. Starkey, ‘Agapē: a Christian Criterion for Truth in the other World Religions’, International Review of Mission, vol. 74 (1985) p. 425, cf. p. 462.
cf. W. Ariarajah, ‘The “Otherness” of the Other’, International Review of Mission, vol. 74 (1985) p. 478
See Preface by S. Landshut, in Karl Marx, Frühschriften, ed. S. Landshut (Stuttgart: Kroner: 1968) p. v.
See for example Peter Ehlen, Der Atheismus im dialektischen Materialismus (Munich: Anton Pustet, 1961) pp. 182f.
For example, in Frans van den Oudenrijin, Kritische Theologie als Kritik der Theologie. Theorie und Praxis by Karl Marx — Herausforderung der Theologie (Munich/Mainz: Kaiser/Grünewald, 1972) pp. 70–178.
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M. N. Rutkewitsch,Die Praxis als Grundlage der Erkenntnis und als Kriterium der Wahrheit, tr. from the Russian (Berlin, 1957) p. 40.
See also Adam Schaff, Theorie der Wahrheit (Vienna, 1954, 1971) p. 123: ‘Die Praxis ist eine historisch bedingte gesellschaftliche Tätigkeit der Menschen, die auf die Umwandlung der natürlichen und der gesellschaftlichen objektiven Wirklichkeit gerichtet ist’. Schaff also called this praxis the highest criterion of truth.
J. Habermas, Theorie und Praxis, 4th edition (Frankfurt-on-Main: Suhrkamp, 1972) p. 10.
K. Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik II/2 (Zollikon Verlag: Zurich 1946) pp. 369ff
By W. A. Christian, V. Brummer, D. Z. Phillips. See my account and criticism, Religions and the Truth (Grand Rapids/Amsterdam: Eerdmans/ Rodopi, 1989) pp. 49ff., 58ff., 69ff., 322ff., 379f.
cf. W. C. Smith, Toward a World Theology (London: Macmillan, 1981) pp. 6–9.
Abraham Kuyper, Het Calvinisme, Stone Lectures, 1898 (Kampen: Kok, 1959) pp. 14, 77.
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Martin Buber, Chassidische vertellingen, Dutch tr. L. S. Blom (Servire, 1967), I.
In my opinion, one cannot go beyond this on the one hand/on the other hand, Cf. H. M. Kuitert, ‘De wil van God doen’, Ad Interim. Opstellen aangeboden aan R. Schippers (Kampen: Kok, 1975), pp. 180–95
and my ‘God and Goodness’, Christian Faith and Philosophical Theology: Essays in Honour of Vincent Brümmer (Kampen: Kok, 1992) pp. 240–58.
Masao Abe, Zen and Western Thought, (London: Macmillan, 1985) p. 183.
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Vroom, H.M. (1993). Right Conduct as a Criterion for True Religion. In: Inter-Religious Models and Criteria. Library of Philosophy and Religion Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23017-4_7
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