SACRAMENTAL ENCOUNTER AMONG RELIGIONS
Keywords:
SACRAMENT, ReligionAbstract
Religious pluralism, always accepted as a datum, is now experienced as a value, and students of religion are faced with the task of discovering new ways to reflect upon what happens when living religious traditions meet. The growing body of literature indicates an interest in the endeavour. R. E. Whitson writes as a theologian of the "coming convergence of world religions"; W. C. Smith locates the study of religious traditions in the "faith of other men"; John Dunne advances the concept of "passing over" to share the religious experience of the other; and Charles Davis works in the area of religious symbol and the possibilities of transcultural understanding.
References
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Robley Edward Whitson, The Coming Conergence of World Religions (New York: Newman Press, 1971), pp. 26-31.
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Langdon Gilkey, "Symbols, Meaning and the Divine Presence," Theological Studies 35 (June 1974), 255.
Wilfred Cantwell Smith, "Comparative Religion: Whither—and Why?" The History of Religions: Essays in Methodology, ed. Mircea Eliade and Joseph M. Kitagawa (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973), p. 33.
W.C. Smith, The Faith of other Men (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), p. 82.
John S. Dunne, The Wav of all the Earth (New York : Macmillan Co., 1972), p. 53.
