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Since the Enlightenment, the churches have progressively suffered a
severe loss of status because of their belief that revelation is
realized only in Christianity. The suggestion that Christian
revelation might be truer than other so-called revelations seems to
be preposterous. This book argues that this insistence has often
remained unnuanced and simplistic, with the consequence that not
only unbelievers as well as believers of other religions, but even
numerous Christians no longer agree with the primacy of a truth
revealed in Jesus Christ. The book addresses the difficulties
affecting the interpretation of belief, given modernity's concerns.
The volume sets out a provisional synthesis on revelation and it
makes available much expository and historical information. It
correlates distinctions between pair members such as the natural
and the supernatural, conceptualism and intellectualism, heart and
reason, subjectivity and objectivity, limited perspective and
universal viewpoint, permanence of doctrine and historicity,
Christian and non-Christian claims regarding truth, revelation and
divine speech, moderate and radical pluralism, Jesus absolutized
and Jesus relativized. The thrust of the argument is towards an
appropriation of what is best in ancient, medieval, and modern
traditions on revelation. This book delineates, in an original way,
a position on revelation that is at once traditional and relevant
for today. It accepts many values brought to the fore by modernity
and draws from exegetes, historians, philosophers, and theologians.
Its inspiration comes principally from the Bible, Thomas Aquinas,
John Henry Newman, and Bernard Lonergan.
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