ABSTRACT

This chapter explores some ways of understanding the relationship between different religions that will sustain the view that all major religions are right. For the different aspects approach, different religions can all be right in that each has true beliefs about an aspect of religious reality. John Hick in his writings has identified religious beliefs of a more general nature that may be better candidates for a common core of belief. One problem for the common core of belief approach is the apparent meagerness of the beliefs available for the common core. The indeterminacy approach accepts that different religions make different truth-claims, that they have different propositional beliefs-that-something-is-true, or truth-beliefs. The relationships approach to understand how one religion relates to another is quite aware of this perspective on what is most significantly involved in being in a religion. The relationships approach can agree and then go on to identify a range of right faith relationships and a range of right abiding relationships in the plurality of religions.