Pluralism and Truth in Religion Karl Jaspers on Existential Truth

Taking up one of the basic issues raised by modern awareness of religiouspluralism, John F. Kane examines and criticizes the idea that differingreligions could be equally true. He focuses on Karl Jasper's analysis of thesymbolic character of religious truth as one major example of a widely acceptedway of explaining the possibility of a plurality of true religions. Theinadequacies of Jasper's approach are seen as instructive for future efforts towrestle with the problem of pluralism and truth.