Truth claims lie at the heart of every religion. The uniqueness of each religion is framed primarily in terms of its respective truth claims. In their attempts to construct a Christian the-ology of religions, leading theologians like John Hick, Paul F. Knitter and J. S. Samartha1 have called upon Christians to re-examine traditional Christian truth claims such as Jesus is ‘the way, and the truth, and the life’ (Jn. 14:6) and ‘there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:12). They argue that cardinal Christian beliefs such as the incarnation are myths and also that traditional truth claims belong to the first century of Christianity and do not make sense in our present context. They further assert that absolute and exclusivist claims have bred a ‘Christian superiority complex that supported and sanctified the western imperialistic exploitation of what today we call the Third World’.2 These claims pose a threat to peaceful co-existence between Christians and people of other faiths and thus, Samartha, among others, demand ‘a re-examination of all exclusivist claims’.3
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Following Jesus as Unique Lord and Saviour in a Broken Pluralistic World on the Lausanne Movement website.
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