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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Christianity and Other Religions: Problem and Promise | |
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| The Many Religions: A Newly Experienced Reality | |
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| Plurality: A Significant Fact of Religious and Cosmic Life | |
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| A Community of Communities? | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Further Readings on Biblical/Patristic Foundations for a Theology of Religions | |
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| The Replacement Model "Only One True Religion" | |
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| Total Replacement | |
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| Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christians | |
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| Variety in the Same Family | |
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| How Many? | |
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| Total Replacement: No Value in Other Religions | |
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| Karl Barth: "Let God Be God--in Jesus Christ!" | |
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| "Religion Is Unbelief!" | |
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| Christianity as the True Religion | |
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| Taking the New Testament and Jesus Seriously | |
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| "One Way" Makes Sense | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Partial Replacement | |
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| God Present in Other Religions? Yes and No | |
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| Revelation: Yes! | |
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| Salvation: No! | |
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| Christianity's Relationship with Other Religions | |
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| The World Council of Churches: Dialogue, Yes!--Theology, No! | |
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| Are the Other Believers "Lost"? | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| The Replacement Model: Insights and Questions | |
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| Insights | |
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| The Centrality of Scripture in Christian Life | |
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| The Reality of Evil and the Need for Help | |
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| Jesus as the One and Only | |
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| Beware of Religion | |
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| Questions | |
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| Sources for a Christian Theology of Religions? | |
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| Jesus the One-and-Only? | |
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| The Fulfillment Model "The One Fulfills the Many" | |
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| The Breakthrough at the Second Vatican Council | |
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| Looking Back: A Historical Review | |
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| A Theological Pioneer: Karl Rahner | |
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| Nature Is Graced | |
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| Religions Are "Ways of Salvation" | |
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| Anonymous Christians | |
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| Limits for the Church and for the Religions | |
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| Vatican II: A Milestone | |
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| "Precious Things Both Religious and Human" | |
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| Are "Rays of Truth" "Ways of Salvation"? | |
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| "Preparation for the Gospel" | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Greater Openness and Dialogue | |
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| Three Steps Forward | |
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| A Necessary Balance | |
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| Expanding the Dialogue | |
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| A Turn to the Spirit: Gavin D'Costa | |
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| Beyond Fulfillment: Jacques Dupuis | |
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| Other Catholic Views | |
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| Uneasy Voices from Asia | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| The Fulfillment Model: Insights and Questions | |
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| Insights | |
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| Truth and Grace in the Religions | |
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| Dialogue Essential to Christian Life | |
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| Nonnegotiables in All Religions | |
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| Questions | |
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| Does the Fulfillment Model Really Allow Dialogue? | |
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| Does Commitment Require Certitude? | |
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| How Does Jesus Save? | |
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| The Mutuality Model "Many True Religions Called to Dialogue" | |
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| The Philosophical Bridge | |
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| Three Questions | |
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| Three Bridges | |
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| The Philosophical-Historical Bridge | |
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| A New Map of Religions | |
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| One Real, Many Cultural Expressions | |
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| Avoiding the Slippery Slopes of Relativism | |
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| What about Jesus? | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| The Mystical and the Prophetic Bridges | |
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| The Religious-Mystical Bridge | |
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| A Divine-Human-Cosmic Unity | |
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| One AND Many | |
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| Mutual Fecundation | |
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| What about Jesus? | |
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| The Ethical-Practical Bridge | |
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| By Their Fruits You Will Know Them | |
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| Common Problems=Common Ground | |
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| Talking after Acting Is Better Talking | |
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| Jesus the Liberator | |
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| The Uniqueness of Jesus Rediscovered | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| The Mutuality Model: Insights and Questions | |
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| Insights | |
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| The Need for New Answers | |
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| Jesus as Sacrament | |
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| A Spirit Christology | |
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| A Christology of Mutuality | |
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| Questions | |
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| Creeping Imperialism? | |
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| Creeping Relativism? | |
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| Is It Really Christian? | |
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| The Acceptance Model "Many True Religions: So Be It" | |
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| Making Peace with Radical Difference | |
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| The Context: Our Postmodern World | |
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| Postliberal Foundations | |
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| Religion: Words before Experience | |
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| No Common Ground | |
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| Dialogue: A Good Neighbor Policy | |
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| Apology for Apologetics | |
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| The Place of Christ | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Real Differences Make for Real Dialogue | |
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| Many Religions, Many Salvations | |
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| Different Ends, Not Just Different Means | |
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| Differences of Religions Because of Differences in God | |
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| Many Salvations Make for Better Dialogue | |
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| The Place of Christ | |
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| Comparative Theology | |
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| A Moratorium on Theologies of Religion! | |
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| Understanding Oneself through Comparing with Others | |
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| How to Do It? | |
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| The Importance of Friendship | |
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| The Role of Jesus? | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| The Acceptance Model: Insights and Questions | |
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| Insights | |
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| We Are All Inclusivists | |
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| The Value of Differences | |
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| Dialogue Has the Right-of-Way to Theology | |
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| Questions | |
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| Is Language a Prism or a Prison? | |
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| Can Many Salvations Save Our World? | |
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| Many Absolutes=No Absolute? | |
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| Can Comparative Theology Be "Theology-Free"? | |
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| An Inconclusive Conclusion | |
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| The Need for Inter-Christian Dialogue | |
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| The Need for Interreligious Cooperation | |
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| Index | |