John Berthrong

Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue

World Religions

“Discernment as the evaluation of one religious community by another is a critical question in contemporary interfaith dialogue theory and practice. How do the members of different religions judge the relative worth of other religious traditions? And how does this judgment connect with the complicated religious lives of modern people? The question of religious discernment has become much more pressing in an age of the globalization of religion along with economic and cultural exchange. What is so refreshing about these essays is that the authors do not shy away from the fact that every religious tradition does have ways of judging the relative merits (and demerits) of the religions of other people . . . As the Kongzi (Confucius) taught so long ago, we need to find harmony but not uniformity. These essays help us on this path.”

Many Mansions?

World Religions

“The whole question of religious pluralism has been challenging to Christian theologians, but the authors here raise the ante by discussing the truly perplexing problem of multiple religious belonging within a pluralistic society. . . . This is a book that everyone interested in Christian theology in a pluralistic age will need to read.”

Two Great Truths

Science & Faith

“simple and elegant”

Understanding Religious Conversion

Foreword

“Kim has crafted an exhaustively researched and readable account of Augustine's process of conversion . . . He has effectively linked the best current studies of religious conversion in the literature with an intense and careful re-reading of Augustine's works and the best current critical historical, sociocultural, psychological, and theological studies of Augustine. It allows the reader to discover, or rediscover, whole aspects of a familiar story from a unique new perspective.”