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In 1997 Orbis published The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul F. Knitter edited by Leonard Swidler and Paul Mojzes, in which an article by Knitter, Professor of Theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati, was followed by a number of Responses by others, and then a reply by Knitter. What follows is my own Response and part of Knitter’s reply to the Responses. Paul Knitter is a long-standing personal as well as theological friend and ally. We both advocate religious pluralism, but whereas my own mission aims beyond as well as within the churches, his has been primarily within the Catholic Church; and I have long been aware that it is very much harder, and also more dangerous, for a Catholic to take up this work than for a Protestant such as myself.
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Paul F. Knitter, One Earth Many Religions (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1995).
E.P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985);
John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate (London: SCM Press, 1993), pp. 19–22.
Marcus Borg, Jesus: A New Vision: Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship (San Francisco: Harper, 1987), p. 14. In 1994 Borg reaffirmed: ‘Over the last ten years, the image of Jesus as an eschatological prophet, which dominated scholarship through the middle of this century, has become very much a minority position’ (Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith [San Francisco: Harper, 1994], p. 29).
Albert Nolan, Jesus before Christianity (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1978), pp. 39–40;
John Dominick Crossan, The Historical Jesus (San Francisco: Harper, 1991), pp. 261–4;
Richard A. Horsley (with John S. Hanson), Bandits, Prophets and Messiahs: Popular Movements at the Time of Jesus (San Francisco: Harper, 1985), pp. 29–87.
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Hick, J. (2001). Paul Knitter on the Person of Christ. In: Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510685_14
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