One of today's foremost theologians presents the case for embracing religious pluralism as integral to the Christian gospel.

Intro -- Divinity & -- Diversity -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1--The Task -- Christian Affirmation? -- Contemporary Christian Pluralism -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- 2--Creation -- Relational Suppositions -- Creation Out of Chaos -- Creation As Call and Response -- Creation Through Diversity -- Creation, Freedom, and Community -- Religions As Call and Response -- Differing Senses of the Sacred? -- Dialogue -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- 3--Radical Incarnation -- Truth As the Way Things Are? -- William James and the Usefulness of Abstractions -- Abstractions and Constructs of God -- James and Pluralism -- Multiple Truths? -- An Incarnational World -- Incarnation and Culture -- God in Culture -- God of Light -- And "No One Comes to the Father but Through Me" -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- 4--The Image of God -- A Criterion for Religion -- The Image of God in Scripture -- The Image of God in the Tradition -- Construction: The Image of God and Affirmation of Pluralism -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- 5--The Reign of God -- The Reign of God -- The Contemporary Call -- The Reign of God and Religious Pluralism -- The Challenge -- Will Dialogue Change Us? -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- 6--Saving Grace -- Review: Four Images -- The Cross -- The Role of Adam -- The Origins of the Notion of Resurrection -- Expiatory Punishment -- The Death and Resurrection of Jesus -- Four Soteriologies -- Saving Grace: A Pluralistic Soteriology -- And Pluralism? -- And Sin? -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- 7--Mission in a Pluralistic World -- Mission As Friendship -- Friendship As Mission: Local -- Friendship As Mission: Global -- And What of Clashing Differences? -- Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Notes -- DIVINITY AND DIVERSITY.