Bible Review

The material in this section is influenced by my reading of the following books: Diana Eck, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras (Boston: Beacon, 1994); Cobb, Christ in a Pluralistic Age (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox, 1975); Cobb, Transforming Christianity; Hick, “Jesus and the World Religions,” in The Myth of God Incarnate, ed. Hick (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox, 1977); and Hick, Problems of Religious Pluralism.

John B. Cobb, Jr., Transforming Christianity and the World, ed. Paul F. Knitter (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999), pp. 136f.

John Hick, Problems of Religious Pluralism (London: Macmillan, 1985), pp. 28f.

See Barth, Church Dogmatics, p. 128f., for a full discussion of Jesus Christ as Word and Life. The Word here means precisely the same thing that it did in vol. 1, pt. 1, namely, the Word of God in the threefold form: Jesus Christ, Scripture and Proclamation.

Barth, Church Dogmatics, p. 102.

Barth, Church Dogmatics, pp. 100, 101.

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, trans. G.W. Bromiley, (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1961), vol. 4, pt. 3, p. 99.

For a very helpful discussion of the strenuous demands of interfaith dialogue, see Sandra Lubarsky, “Dialogue: ‘Holy Insecurity,’” Religious Education, 91:4 (1996), pp. 540f.

Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations (Baltimore: Helicon, 1969), vol. 6, pp. 390–398, cited in Morse, Not Every Spirit, p. 292.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 3a 16–26, cited in Morse, Not Every Spirit, p. 81.