This collection of recent essays confronts, from widely disparate perspectives, fundamental questions about the epistemology and semantics of religious claims. Is there any way, apart from a particular religious tradition, of knowing that the distinctive claims of a religious tradition are true or closer to truth than those of any other religion? Does 'God' in religious speech and texts refer to the same Being as does philosophical theism? A response by each contributor to the others' ideas is included.

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Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

Charles M. Lewis

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Book Title: Relativism and Religion
Editors: Charles M. Lewis
Series Title: Library of Philosophy and Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24132-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-24134-7Published: 01 January 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24132-3Published: 27 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-0242
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0250
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 158
Topics: Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Religion

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Where are the Gods Now?

A Prayer for Understanding

Religious Pluralism and Religious Relativism

The Justificationist Roots of Relativism

Will Narrativity Work as Linchpin? Reflections on the Hermeneutic of Hans Frei

Concluding Responses

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