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The Theological Promise of Religious Diversity

Nicholas of Cusa’s Vision

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The Theological Promise of Religious Diversity

Nicholas of Cusa’s Vision

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This book draws the recent approach to religious diversity known as relational pluralism into dialogue with Nicholas of Cusa's mystical masterpiece, On the Vision of God, to offer an imaginative way to make theological sense of religious diversity. This is theology that views religious diversity as promising rather than problematic. God in Perspective examines how the familiar Christian theological responses to religious diversity known as the exclusivist, inclusivist, and pluralist models, along with their variants, reflect either modernity's totalizing epistemology, by upholding the pre-eminence of a single religious tradition, or postmodernity's decentering epistemologies, by upholding the relativity of all traditions. God in Perspective seeks a space beyond that stalemate between common-ground and incompatibility, beyond modern homogeneity and postmodern fragmentation. By offering a fresh reading of Nicholas of Cusa's vision and drawing on the best scholarship in contemporary theologies of religious diversity, God In Perspective presents a theological framework that enables people of diverse traditions to hold to the particularity of their beliefs and yet learn from those who stand in a different place, discovering a God who is revealed in and through multiplicity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Christian Theology of Religions
Chapter Two: Nicholas of Cusa
Chapter Three: Cusa's Vision
Chapter Four: The Towers of Constantinople and New York
Chapter Five: God Unfolds and Enfolds Creation
Chapter Six: The One and the Many
Chapter Seven: On the Peace of Faith
Chapter Eight: An Expanding Vision
Chapter Nine: Particularity and Universality
Chapter Ten: Cusa's Vision and the Theological Promise of Religious Diversity
Afterword
Bibliography

Product details

Published 19 Mar 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9781666936742
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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