Explain how your position on the relation between religions (in terms of inclusivism, exclusivism, pluralism) compares with Hick, Prothero, and the Dalai Lama
Whose position do you appreciate the most and why?
Whose position is the least helpful and why?
For the all of the Abrahamic religions, explain one similarity and one difference in terms of the three questions for salvation:
In terms of what is the goal or what am I going to get
How do the goals of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam agree?
How do the goals of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ?
In terms of the self or what is going to happen to me
How does the concept of self in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam agree?
How does the concept of self in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ?
In terms of the plan or what do I have to do
How do the plans in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam agree?
How do the plans in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ?
Compare one concept (goal, self, plan) from an Eastern and Western religion in order to defend your position on inclusivism, exclusivism, pluralism
Explain what the concept means in the Eastern tradition
Explain what the concept means in the Western tradition
If you are a pluralist, explain how this concept is being misunderstood as being different because it means the same thing on a deeper level
If you are an exclusivist, explain what is the correct understanding of the concept and why the other religion has got it wrong somehow
If you are an inclusivist, explain what is the correct understanding of the concept and how the other religion copies that correct concept
References :
Smith, Huston World Religions (Harper, 1991) ISBN : 0062508113
Novak, Philip The World's Wisdom (Harper, 1995) ISBN: 006066