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Article: Dialogue not monologue: Benedict XVI & religious pluralism.
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- Commonweal
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- October 21, 2005
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How is Benedict XVI, long a defender of orthodoxy and famous critic of the "dictatorship of relativism," likely to approach interreligious dialogue? Does he see religious pluralism and tolerance as little more than an enticement to indifferentism or as something potentially more spiritually and intellectually fruitful?
While in India this summer, I spent a good bit of time reading two books by Benedict: Many Religions--One Covenant: Israel, the Church, and the World and Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions (both Ignatius Press). Both collect relatively short pieces from the past fifteen years that shed considerable light on the new pope's ...