Bibliography: BIB29520

Key	BIB29520
Reference type	Book Section
Title	Can There Be Only One True Religion?
Book title	Search for Values : Ethics in Bahá'í Thought
Series title	Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions
Author	Hicks, John
Editor	Fazel, Seena and Danesh, John
Year	2004
Publisher	Kalimát Press
Place published	Los Angeles, CA
Abstract	Explores the implications of the belief among people of various religious traditions that there can be only one true religion. The problems with this thesis include the promotion of religious strife and the inability to engage in interfaith dialogue. Suggests that the one-ture-religion idea is inconsistent with the reading of a New Testament text that supports salvation as individual transformation toward genuine altruism and love of neighbor. Such spiritual qualities are manifested as much by ordinary non-Christians and the saints of other traditions as they are by Christian believers and saints. Concludes by suggestion that conlficting truth claims of various religions are due to the influence of culture and people's different mind-sets. This pluralist perspective does not diminish the uniqueness of each tradition, but enables people from different religions to interact meaningfully in interfaith dialogue.
Language	English
Keywords	RELIGION; EXCLUSIVITY; PLURALISM; INTERFAITH ACTIVITIES
Pages	81–91
Section	7.
Series volume	v.15