ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the nature of the relationship between the particular (person, community and vision of Jesus) and other particular traditions. As we have seen, it would be disingenuous to deny that the Christian tradition does indeed make universal claims, that is, the tradition has a radical otherness which should be affirmed. However, the question is: how should this otherness be affirmed in the light of other traditions which themselves also make universal claims and consist of distinct relations between particularity and universality? We should not generalize about these others, so as to dehumanize their constituents, but should attend to their genuine otherness, even as we also recognize that the traditions are not entirely separate from each other but are in fact interrelated.
