This selection of source readings brings together diverse materials from the Christian tradition in order to help students think theologically about the implications of religious plurality.Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction: Religious Pluralism Old and New.
Part I: Biblical Texts:.
A. Old Testament:.
2. Genesis 1-3 (creation and fall narratives).
3. Genesis 9 (Noahic covenant).
4. Genesis 11-12, 15 (Abrahamic calling and covenant).
5. Ruth 1-4 (a non-Israelite's adoption of the faith of the Israelites).
6. Deuteronomy 5 (law of the covenant).
7. I Kings 18 (the encounter of God and the gods).
8. Ezra [selections] (building of walls literal and otherwise to keep out non-Jews).
9. Esther 1-10 (a Jewess flourishes in a non-Jewish setting but rallies to the cause of her people).
10. Wisdom literature [selections] (human wisdom is esteemed, but the fear of Jahweh is the source of true wisdom).
11. Isaiah [selections] (judgement of the nations of the earth followed by promise).
12. Daniel 1-6 (a Jew is true to his faith in a foreign land and is blessed).
13. Amos 1-6 (judgement of the nations and of Israel).
14. Jonah 1-4 (God's concern with nations other than Israel).
15. Micah 4 (the peoples of the earth walk in the name of their gods).
B. New Testament:.
16. The Gospels [selections] (life and ministry of Jesus).
17. Matthew 28 (the Great Commission).
18. John 1 (prologue concerning the logos).
19. John 3 (God's love for the world and sacrificial gift for the world).
20. John 14l.
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