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Truth-claims and inter-religious dialogue1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Julius Lipner
Affiliation:
Lecturer in the Study of Religions, Cambridge University

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The debate continues concerning the nature of religious truth-claims and their role in dialogue: a seemingly vexatious topic not only in discussions between religious persons and those who question the value of accredited religion, but also within the camp of differently aligned believers themselves. Indeed the present interest in inter-religious understanding has tended to make this problem even more acute. In Part I of this paper I wish to discuss the issue of truth-claims in religion within the context of two apparently conflicting views: the one represented in the writings of Professor John Hick, and the other that advanced by D. Z. Phillips. In the second part I propose to indicate how this issue bears on the further question of inter-faith dialogue.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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