Three important schools within this field are
These each describe the relation of other religious traditions to Christianity and attempt to answer questions about the nature of God and salvation.
Pluralism is basically the belief that the world religions are true and equally valid in their communication of the truth about God, the world, and salvation. This is the popular view that all religions lead to the same God and all ways lead to heaven
Exclusivism:
Believers ascend into Heaven while sinners and those who reject the faith are doomed to Hell.
"All the nations may walk in the name of their gods This sense of superiority of a person's national deity may well have been the attitude of most of the Canaanite peoples toward their gods.
Exclusivism is the theological position that holds to the finality of the Christian faith in Christ. The finality of Christ means that there is no salvation in non-Christian religions.
Inclusivism is the belief that God is present in non-Christian religions to save adherents through Christ.
- pluralism
- inclusivism,
- exclusivism.
These each describe the relation of other religious traditions to Christianity and attempt to answer questions about the nature of God and salvation.
Pluralism is basically the belief that the world religions are true and equally valid in their communication of the truth about God, the world, and salvation. This is the popular view that all religions lead to the same God and all ways lead to heaven
Exclusivism:
Believers ascend into Heaven while sinners and those who reject the faith are doomed to Hell.
"All the nations may walk in the name of their gods This sense of superiority of a person's national deity may well have been the attitude of most of the Canaanite peoples toward their gods.
Exclusivism is the theological position that holds to the finality of the Christian faith in Christ. The finality of Christ means that there is no salvation in non-Christian religions.
Inclusivism is the belief that God is present in non-Christian religions to save adherents through Christ.
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