Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition (2019)
Preface to the German Edition (2015)
1. A Theology of Religions or a Theology of Interreligious Relations?
2. Developments to Date: Christian Classifications of Other Religions

Part I: Newer Christian Theology-of-Religion Models
3. Revisionist Approaches: John Hick and Paul Knitter
4. Interpretive Approaches: Michael von Brück and S. Mark Heim
5. Revisionist and Interpretive Approaches: A Critical Response
6. Selective Approaches: Francis Clooney
7. Interactionist Approaches: Amos Yong
8. Selective and Interactionist Approaches: A Critical Response
9. Comparative Remarks: Six Heuristic Questions

Part II: How Islam and Buddhism View Other Religions
10. The Ultimate Validity of the Qur’an and Religious Plurality: Islamic Perspectives
11. A Liberation-Theological Hermeneutics of the Qur’an: Farid Esack
12. An Islamist Hermeneutics of the Qur’an, and Tolerance: Muhammad Shahrūr
13. Nonadherence and Religious Plurality: Buddhist Perspectives
14. Models of Buddhist Thought
15. A Concluding Comparison: Six Heuristic Questions

Part III: Building Blocks for a Theory of Interreligious Relations
16. Is There a Need for a Theory of Interreligious Relations?
17. What Does Identity Mean? Interaction in Social Networks
18. Inclusions and Exclusions: Ambivalences
19. What Does Recognition Mean? Levels of Acknowledgment
20. Which Factors Are at Play in the Public Sphere? Spatial Relationships and Relationship Spaces
21. Pluralism, Multiculturalism, and the Theory of Society: Background Assumptions
22. The Basic Principles of a Theory of Interreligious Relations: An Outlook

Part IV: The Dialogical in Interreligious Relations
23. Dialogues and Intentions: Encounters
24. Dialogues and the Dialogical: Signs
25. Dialogue: Yes, but with Whom? Discourses
26. The Goal of Dialogue: The Proper Balance Between Intimacy and Dissociation

Part V: Toward a Theology of Interreligious Relations
27. A Theology of Interreligious Relations as a New Approach: Theses
28. The Power and Love of the One God: On the Biblical Concept of God
29. The Interreligious Communication of Jesus Christ: Searching for Traces
30. The Fellowship of the Spirit as a Contrast Model: The Example of 1 Peter
31. Endorsing Both a Dualistic Worldview and Pacifism? Taking Revelation as an Example
32. Ultimate-Justification Models as the Basis for Interreligious Relations: Looking Forward

Part VI: Intercultural Theology/Mission Studies and Religious Studies
33. Intercultural Theology: Implications of the Term
34. Intercultural Theology/Mission Studies: Dimensions
35. Intercultural Theology and Religious Studies: Looking Forward
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index

About the Author

Henning Wrogemann (DTheol, DHabil, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg) is a world-renowned missiologist and scholar of religion. He holds the chair for mission studies, comparative religion, and ecumenics at the Protestant University Wuppertal/Bethel in Germany, where he also heads the Institute for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies. He is the chairman of the German Society of Missiology.

Reviews

"Wrogemann's book is a significant, nuanced and substantial contribution in the area of theology of religions and interreligious relations."
*David H. F. Ng, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1*