Process and Pluralism
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This book offers a uniquely process relational oriented Chinese approach to inter-religious dialogue called Chinese Harmonism. The key features of Chinese harmonism are peaceful co-existence, mutual transformation, and openness to change. As developed with help from Whiteheadian process thought, Chinese harmonism provides a middle way between particularism and universalism, showing how diversity can exist within unity. Chinese harmonism is open to similarities among religions, but it also emphasizes that differences among religions can be complementary rather than contradictory. Thus Chinese harmonism implies an attitude of respect for others and a willingness to learn from others, without reducing the other to one's own identity: that is, to sameness. By emphasizing the possibility of complementariness, a process oriented Chinese harmonism avoids a dichotomy between universalism and particularism represented respectively by John Hick and S. Mark Heim, and will make room for a genuine openness and do justice to the culturally and religiously "other."
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2 - FOREWORD [Seite 9]
3 - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [Seite 13]
4 - INTRODUCTION [Seite 15]
5 - Chapter 1: The Road toward Religious Pluralism: A Historical Survey [Seite 23]
6 - Chapter 2: John Hick's Religious Universalism: A Process Response [Seite 65]
7 - Chapter 3: Heim's Religious Particularism And a Process Alternative [Seite 95]
8 - Chapter 4: Whiteheadian Religious Pluralism [Seite 141]
9 - Chapter 5: Chinese Harmonism [Seite 169]
10 - Chapter 6: Philosophical Foundation of Chinese Harmonism [Seite 191]
11 - SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY [Seite 215]
12 - INDEX [Seite 229]
