ABSTRACT
Jacques Dupuis's trinitarian theology of religious pluralism is not pluralistic but firmly anchored in the Catholic trinitarian tradition, even though in the eyes of his superiors it seems to cross over the boundaries. In his more recent work Dupuis has enlarged his perspective to include pneumatology in its own right, and thus made his approach a more balanced trinitarian one. Dupuis's theology of religions could be called pneumato-Christocentric or even better trinitopneumato-Christocentric. What lies behind much of Dupuis's work on the theology of religions is the desire to move beyond the 'fulfilment theory', which looks at other religions only as stepping stones to Christianity. Several inadequacies of that model bother Dupuis. First, it places limits on what God may be doing in other religions by using the church as the yardstick. Second, it may end up making the church more important than Christ/God. Third, it builds an obstacle to dialogue by insisting that Christianity represents something 'higher'.
