Deep Religious Pluralism

A groundbreaking work, "Deep Religious Pluralism" is based on the conviction that the philosophy articulated by Alfred North Whitehead encourages not only religious diversity but deep religious pluralism.

In Part I, David Ray Griffin explains how the Whitehead-based religious pluralism of John Cobb avoids the problems in John Hick’s type of pluralism, which have led many thinkers, such as Mark Heim, to reject pluralism as such. Griffin shows that Cobb has achieved precisely the ideal articulated in Heim’s own Salvations---a position that can see truth in the various traditions without neglecting their differences.

In Part II, Steve Odin and John Shunji Yokota extend Cobb’s Buddhist-Christian dialogue.

In Part III, Sandra Lubarsky, Jeffery Long, Mustafa Ruzgar, Christopher Ives, Michael Lodahl, Chung-ying Cheng, and Wang Shik Jang employ Whiteheadian philosophy to develop, respectively, Jewish, Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist, Evangelical Christian, Daoist-Confucian, and Asian Christian versions of deep religious pluralism.

In Part IV, John Cobb explains the main Whiteheadian assumptions on which his form of religious pluralism has been based.