The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective

by J. Augustine Dinoia

PRAISE FOR THE "DiNoia approaches the debate in the theology of religions with a fresh, lucid, critical and informed mind. . . . This book is timely, provocative and explores new territories and recasts old debates in a fresh and intelligent manner. It will appeal to philosophers, theologians, indologists and those concerned with the meeting of Christianity and the world religions."―Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol

Genres: Theology, Christianity

216 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

Reviews

[Greg Ory · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn’t understand half of it.

[John]

This important book serves as a useful corrective to typical liberal-Christian theologies of religious pluralism, as well as the indifferentism that plagues a great deal of secular comment on religion. Dinoia takes the claims of the religions seriously--if a Theravada Buddhist, for example, seeks the cessation of the cycle of craving and suffering through pursuit of the blissful extinction of the ego that he calls nirvana, one does him no justice by claiming that he is really pursuing the Christian ideal of eternal life in the Beatific Vision of the Trinity. Dinoia argues that the diversity of religions is real (e.g., they're not all "basically the same"), and he makes the case that this diversity is providential in a Christian theological sense.