Christianity and Religious Plurality

In today’s radically mobile and migratory world, nations are more religiously plural than before. In Europe and North America, where once an assumption of Christian primacy prevailed, now multiple religions and secular worldviews compete for allegiance and influence. With support from Fuller Seminary and the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, scholars from Calvin and Fuller convened a broadly international team of Christian scholars to “provide a new map for understanding the multi-faceted Christian interaction with religious plurality.” While there have been repeated attempts to reckon with religious plurality in Europe and North America, none of these have drawn deeply from the Christian thought and practice from Asia and Africa, where Christianity has made its way for centuries in religiously plural settings. These scholars have produced some original essays, and Calvin College theologian Richard Plantinga has been editing these essays into a thematic book. This fall he has Nagel Institute support to finish the project.

Richard J. Plantinga, Ph.D.
Professor of Religion
Calvin College