Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions:

Here is the beginning of an evangelical theology of religions that addresses the problem of truth and revelation, and takes seriously the normative claims of other traditions.

Gerald R. McDermott is associate professor of religion and philosophy at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

Acknowledgments

7

(2)

Introduction

9

(12)

Evangelicals & The World Religions

21

(24)

Historical Highlights

25

(3)

Theological Definition

28

(6)

Evangelicalism Versus Fundamentalism

34

(3)

Protestant Orthodoxy, Liberalism and Postliberalism

37

(2)

Evangelicals on the World Religions

39

(6)

What Is Revelation?

45

(28)

Definition

46

(2)

Media and Modes

48

(1)

Revelation in Nature?

49

(5)

The Nature of the Truth of Revelation

54

(7)

Dimensions of Revelation

61

(3)

The Interpretation of Revelation

64

(9)

Biblical Suggestions

73

(18)

God Wants the Gentiles to Know Him

74

(3)

Knowledge of God Outside the Hebrew and Christian Traditions

77

(3)

God's People Learn from Those Outside the Jewish and Christian Churches

80

(11)

Theological Considerations

91

(30)

Covenants and the Religions

96

(8)

Typology

104

(4)

Barth's Parables of the Kingdom

108

(2)

Once More: Revelation in the Religions

110

(4)

Why Would God Provide Such Types?

114

(7)

An Old Pattern: Christian Theologians Who Plundered The Egyptians

121

(12)

Saint Augustine

121

(3)

Thomas Aquinas

124

(5)

John Calvin

129

(4)

Buddhist No-Self & No-Mind

133

(24)

Different Visions

133

(3)

God Beyond Thoughts and Words

136

(4)

Contingency of World and Self

140

(3)

The Mystery of the Ordinary

143

(5)

The Compulsive Clinging of the Old Man

148

(3)

Sitting on the Cross

151

(2)

Finding the True Self

153

(1)

Two Final Notes

154

(3)

A Daoist Theology Of Camouflage

157

(14)

God in Camouflage

159

(6)

God's Paradoxical Ways

165

(6)

The Confucian Commitment To Virtue

171

(14)

China's Categorical Imperative

174

(5)

Zhong and Shu

179

(3)

Final Remarks

182

(3)

Muhammad & The Signs Of God

185

(22)

Some Surprises

187

(5)

Differences

192

(2)

Striking Lessons

194

(13)

In Conclusion: Objections & Responses

207

(14)

Appendix: God & the Masculine Pronoun

221

(6)

Index of Names & Subjects

227

(4)

Index of Scripture References

231

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Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions: Jesus, Revelation & Religious Traditions

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