WAS JACQUES DUPUIS A NEORAHNERIAN?
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NEORAHNERIANAbstract
In a 1998 review of Jacques Dupuis’ Toward a Christian Theology of
Religious Pluralism, Gavin D’Costa argued that “Dupuis is basically a
Rahnerian… Theologically, he carries on from where Rahner left
off.”1 After Dupuis died in 2004, D’Costa repeated this judgement
about Dupuis. When critically examining what he called the
“structural inclusivism” of Rahner in Christianity and World Religions,
D’Costa introduced Dupuis and named him a “neo-Rahnerian.”2 In
writing of interreligious dialogues, D’Costa stated that Dupuis at
various points not only paralleled Rahner’s thought but had also
“developed” it.
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G. D’Costa, review in Journal of Theological Studies, 59 (1998).
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G. D’Costa, “Christian Theology of Religions,” in Chad Meister and James Beilby, ed., The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought, London/New York: Routledge, 2013.
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