Responses to Religious Diversity

I have argued that both exclusivism and inclusivism are manifestly inadequate. The basic reason for this is, in a nutshell, that equally intelligent, informed, genuinely religious, and morally and spiritually advanced people belong to different faith traditions. This fact alone is enough to lead us to religious pluralism, because it is incompatible with both exclusivism and inclusivism — at any rate, in the latter case, without complex epicycles of additional theory. But there are many forms of religious pluralism, with the number still growing. It is not possible to discuss them all here and I must restrict myself to some of the currently most influential. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.