Pluralism and Religious Truth: A Response to Schmidt-Leukel

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    Professor Schmidt-Leukel has claimed that there are only four possible views about truth in religion. Either no religions are true, or only one religion is true (exclusivism), or many are true, and either one is superior (inclusivism) or all are about equally true (pluralism). I argue that the ideas of equal or superior truth are unclear, and that there are many other possible views. I propose a twofold contrast ? between closed (rigid, crucially important, and totally authoritative) and open (flexible, varying in importance, and restrictedly authoritative); and between exclusive (only one path leads to salvation) and inclusive (many paths lead towards salvation
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)55-62
    JournalModern Believing
    Volume58
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

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