Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index.
Summary
"In this work S. Mark Heim probes the Christian understanding of God and salvation and offers a new perspective on religious pluralism that recognizes different religious ends in other faiths. The questions explored here are both difficult and enlightening. What is the distinctive nature of salvation? Is there a place in Christian theology for recognizing other religious ends in addition to salvation? In pursuit of meaningful answers, Heim uses the classical doctrine of the Trinity to develop a theology that respects the possibility that alternative relations with God exist in other religions."--Jacket.
Contents
pt. 1: The aims and ends of religions -- Saving the particulars: the diversity of religious ends -- pt. 2: Religious ends and Christian tradition -- Salvation as communion: all the fullness of God -- The glory of the creature: religious ends in Christian theology -- pt. 3: Trinity and the religions -- The depth of the riches: Trinity as the framework for religious diversity -- The riches of the glory: Trinity and religious ends -- True relations: the integrity of other religious ends -- pt. 4: Eschatology and plenitude -- The glory and the fullness: religious ends and plenitude -- A theology of religious ends.