Diana Eck - Religious Views of Religious Pluralism I

Religious diversity poses questions that are not only global, national, and civic, but also theological. In 1910, the World Conference on Mission convened in Edinburgh and addressed the world's religions from the standpoint of Christian missions. Today, as people encounter neighbors of other faiths, face to face, and as communications enable people of every faith to know those of other faiths, what new theological questions do we and others pose about our own faith? How is the "truth" of each tradition challenged in the face of other faiths and truth claims? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are increasingly referred to as the "Abrahamic" faiths, indicating a common prophetic ancestor in the figure of Abraham. Abrahamic dialogue is on the rise. What assessment do we have of these dialogues?

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• 2009
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[thegreeensky]

nice video.. well discussed...

[felpaluche]

We just need to be open-minded.

[fctchk]

Theology is a last gasp attempt, using thickly disguised circular reasoning, to paper over the terminal damage inflicted by science upon religion.

The purveyors of ecumenical kumbaya, here schoolmarmishly fetishized by Ms. Eck in a torrent of pleonastic platitudinous pap, are nought but earnest and unctuous rearrangers of the deck chairs on the good ship "Monotheism" on its way down to the ocean floor littered with theisms and other debunked dogmas