In this book three main things have been accomplished. First it locates the emergence of
religious pluralism as a problem for Christian theology. Secondly it shows the critical
weaknesses in the approaches to pluralism that we find in the works of Gavin D'Costa George
Lindbeck and John Hick all major players in the field of religious pluralism. Retrieving
theological material from seventeenth-century Comenius and eighteenth-century Zinzendorf the
book shows that the Protestant tradition has suitable theological material that can better
serve the development of a theology of religious pluralism. Thirdly the book enters into
dialogue with Islam and highlights exciting new approaches to addressing the issues of
salvation the Qur'an and Christology. One critical outcome of the book is that it breaks new
ground in showing the limitations of liberation theology and proposes a fascinating new
pluralism-sensitive hermeneutical approach to contextual theology.
