Wednesday 14 April 2010

PLURALISM

'Pluralism...claims to have discovered a bigger truth that none of the religions has observed before; it then suggests that the smaller truths the religions thought they could see (Jesus' death for sins, for example) are in fact mistaken - mere symbols and sacraments of sacredness. This is a big call. By describing religions as true in a manner none of them has affirmed before and false in all the ways they have always affirmed, pluralism assumes an intellectual high ground that far exceeds any other claims of the world religions.'
John Dickson, Promoting the Gospel, p.34.