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| Introduction | |
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| Biblical Texts:A. Old Testament | |
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| Genesis 1-3 (creation and fall narratives) | |
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| Genesis 9 (Noahic covenant) | |
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| Genesis 11-12, 15 (Abrahamic calling and covenant) | |
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| Ruth 1-4 (a non-Israelite's adoption of the faith of the Israelites) | |
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| Deuteronomy 5 (law of the covenant) | |
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| I Kings 18 (the encounter of God and the gods) | |
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| Ezra [selections] (building of walls literal and otherwise to keep out non-Jews) | |
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| Esther 1-10 (a Jewess flourishes in a non-Jewish setting but rallies to the cause of her people) | |
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| Wisdom literature [selections] (human wisdom is esteemed, but the fear of Jahweh is the source of true wisdom) | |
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| Isaiah [selections] (judgement of the nations of the earth followed by promise) | |
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| Daniel 1-6 (a Jew is true to his faith in a foreign land and is blessed) | |
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| Amos 1-6 (judgement of the nations and of Israel) | |
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| Jonah 1-4 (God's concern with nations other than Israel) | |
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| Micah 4 (the peoples of the earth walk in the name of their gods)B. New Testament | |
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| The Gospels [selections] (life and ministry of Jesus) | |
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| Matthew 28 (the Great Commission) | |
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| John 1 (prologue concerning the logos) | |
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| John 3 (God's love for the world and sacrificial gift for the world) | |
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| John 14 (intimate relations between Father, Son, and Spirit; bond of love between God and believing humanity) | |
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| Acts 14 (God's universal witness) | |
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| Acts 17 (Paul on the Areopagus) | |
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| Romans 1 (universal natural knowledge of God) | |
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| Romans 2-3, 8-11 (the question of election) | |
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| I Timothy 2 (divine desire for universal salvation) | |
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| I John 4 (God is love) | |
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| Revelation 22 (the close of the Biblical narrative on an eschatological note) | |
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| Patristic Texts | |
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| Justin Martyr, 'The First Apology'' | |
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| Tertullian, 'The Prescriptions Against the Heretics' | |
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| Origen, 'De Principiis', Book I/6, Book III/6 | |
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| Augustine, 'On the Profit of Believing' | |
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| Augustine, 'The City of God', Book VI, Book VIII/1 | |
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| Athanasian Creed | |
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| Medieval Texts | |
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| Anselm, 'Proslogium' | |
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| Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologiae' I.1.1; I-II.109; I-II.112-114; II-II.2-10; II-II.81 | |
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| Renaissance and Reformation Texts | |
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| Nicholas of Cusa, 'De Pace Fidei' | |
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| John Calvin, 'Institutes of the Christian Religion', Book I/1-10, Book II/2/12-27 | |
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| The Creed of the Council of Trent | |
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| Herbert of Cherbury 'De Veritate' [selections] | |
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| Rene Descartes, 'Meditations on First Philosophy' [selections] | |
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| GE Lessing, 'Nathan the Wise' Act III, Scene 7 | |
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| Friedrich Schleiermacher, 'The Christian Faith' 3-4, 6-12, 14 | |
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| Ernst Troeltsch, 'The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions' | |
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| Karl Barth, 'The Revelation of God as the Abolition of Religion' | |
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| Hendrik Kraemer, 'An Attempt at an Answer' | |
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| Joachim Wach, 'General Revelation and the Religions of the World' | |
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| Vatican II, 'Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions' | |
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| Karl Rahner, 'Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions' | |
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| Paul Tillich, 'Christianity Judging Itself In the Light of Its Encounter With the World Religions' | |
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| Paul Tillich, 'The Significance of the History of Religions for the Systematic Theologian' | |
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| Stanley Samartha, 'Dialogue as a Continuing Christian Concern' | |
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| Wilfred Cantwell Smith, 'The Christian in a Religiously Plural World' | |
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| John Hick, 'Whatever Path Men Choose is Mine' | |
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| John Hick, 'A Philosophy of Religious Pluralism' | |
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| Lesslie Newbigin, 'The Gospel and the Religions' | |
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| Peter Berger, 'God in a World of Gods' | |
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| John Paul II, 'Crossing the Threshold of Hope' [selections] | |