Pluralism: The Future of Religion

Kenneth Rose is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Christopher Newport University, Virginia, USA. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, and the University of Massachusetts. He holds an M.Div. from Harvard University Divinity School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. At Harvard, he was a Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions. He is the author of Knowing the Real: John Hick on the Cognitivity of Religions and Religious Pluralism and has published numerous academic articles and reviews.

• 1. Impasse in Theology of Religions 2. The Copernican Revolution and Counterrevolution in Theology of Religions 3. The Prisoners' Parable 4. Pluralism in the Upani?ads 5. Pluralism in the New Testament 6. Charting an Apophatic Pluralism Bibliography Index

Kenneth Rose’s Pluralism: The Future of Religion is one of the most important works to appear in the theology of religions in nearly two decades. Evocatively written, rhetorically effective, deftly argued, remarkably lucid, theologically nuanced, and even spiritually discerning, the book launches a full-scale attack on exclusivistic and inclusivistic versions of “particularism,” the view that one particular religion is absolute, universal, unsurpassable, and superior to all the others … I cannot recommend Pluralism: The Future of Religion strongly enough.