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What can Christian theology claim about the place of other religions in God's providential plan for humanity? How can it reconcile the universality of God's saving plan and the particularity of Christ and the Church? What meaning is left to Christian existence and mission in a religiously pluralist world? As priest-theologian, cardinal archbishop, and pope, Joseph Ratzinger reflected on these difficult questions for more than half a century and in a variety of contexts, proffering an array of profound answers that are dispersed across his substantial literary corpus. In Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism, Sameer Advani assembles and synthesizes these reflections and answers of the late pontiff, providing a systematic study of Ratzinger's theology of religions that attends to the scope of his larger historical, philosophical, and theological concerns. The first part analyzes Ratzinger's critical engagement with various paradigms of religious pluralism, whose accounts of religion, Christianity, and non-Christian religions he found both phenomenologically and theologically wanting. The second part, in turn, explores Ratzinger's positive proposal for a theology of religions, which locates both Christianity and non-Christian religions against the larger backgrounds of anthropological unity, the human search for truth, and divine providence. Advani argues that while Ratzinger rejected the idea that other religions are salvific or on par with Christianity, he recognized both their important role in God's providential plan and their suitedness to an "assumption" into the Church through mutual, albeit asymmetric, purification and enrichment.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part I
The De Facto Religious Pluralism of the "Christian of Today"
Section I A New Philosophical Understanding of Religion
Chapter 1: The Modern Redefinition of Religion
Chapter 2: The Postmodern Redefinition of Religion
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Section II An Anthropologically Based Universal Salvation Optimism
Chapter 3: The Lead-Up to Vatican II and the Novelty of Lumen Gentium
Chapter 4: The Difficulties of Vatican II
Chapter 5: Postconciliar Developments
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Section III A New Theological Understanding of Religion
Chapter 6: Exclusivism and Inclusivism
Chapter 7: Vatican II on the Other Religions
Chapter 8: Theologies of Religious Pluralism
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Part II
The Value of Non-Christian Religions, and the Meaning of Christian Identity and Mission in the Religiously Plural World
Section IV Similarities, Differences, and Historical Relationships: A Phenomenological Evaluation of Religions
Chapter 9: Discovering a Taxonomy of Religions
Chapter 10: Delving Deeper into the Phenomenological Evidence
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Section V Transforming Pluralism into Anthropological Plurality: A Philosophical Evaluation of Religions
Chapter 11: The Anthropological-Epistemological-Linguistic Basis for the Unity and Plurality of Religions
Chapter 12: Interreligious Dialogue
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Section VI Transforming Anthropological Plurality into the Unity in Diversity of Faith: A Theological Evaluation of Religions
Chapter 13: Mission and Double Fulfillment
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Section VII The Church as the Sacrament of Salvation
Chapter 14: Vicarious Representation
Chapter 15: Christian Identity and Mission: A Eucharistic Existence
Chapter 16: Collaborating with Grace
Conclusions and Critical Reflections
Selected Bibliography Of Joseph Ratzinger Of Benedict XVI
Index
