| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Three Theological Perspectives | p. 2 |
| From Confrontation to Dialogue | p. 5 |
| From Interreligious Dialogue to a Theology of Religious Pluralism | p. 8 |
| Outline and Development of This Book | p. 11 |
| Jesus, the Apostolic Church, and the Religions | p. 17 |
| Jesus and the Religions | p. 20 |
| The Horizon of the Reign of God | p. 21 |
| Entry of the Gentiles into the Reign of God | p. 23 |
| The Universality of the Reign of God | p. 25 |
| The Reign of God and the Religions | p. 29 |
| The Apostolic Church and the Religions | p. 31 |
| The Law Written on the Heart | p. 33 |
| The Unknown God | p. 35 |
| God Shows No Partiality | p. 37 |
| God Desires Everyone to Be Saved | p. 39 |
| At the Crossroads of Vatican II | p. 45 |
| Pre-Vatican II Theology of the Religions | p. 47 |
| Fulfillment Theory: The Binary Danielou-de Lubac | p. 47 |
| The Inclusive Presence of Christ: The Divergence between Rahner and Panikkar | p. 52 |
| Vatican II: A Watershed? | p. 59 |
| Positive Values Contained in Religious Traditions | p. 61 |
| Toward a Balanced Critical Appraisal | p. 64 |
| The Postconciliar Magisterium | p. 67 |
| The Pontificate of Paul VI | p. 67 |
| The Pontificate of John Paul II | p. 68 |
| Christianity and the Religions in Recent Theology | p. 74 |
| Paradigm Shifts | p. 76 |
| From Ecclesiocentrism to Christocentrism | p. 76 |
| From Christocentrism to Theocentrism | p. 77 |
| Further Models and Beyond | p. 79 |
| Regnocentrism and Soteriocentrism | p. 79 |
| Logocentrism and Pneumatocentrism | p. 81 |
| Beyond Western Categories | p. 84 |
| Toward a Model of Inclusive Pluralism | p. 87 |
| The Christological Question | p. 87 |
| A Trinitarian Christology as Interpretative Key | p. 90 |
| The God of the Covenant and the Religions | p. 96 |
| The Universal History of Salvation | p. 98 |
| Beyond the Judeo-Christian Tradition | p. 98 |
| The Saving Histories of Peoples | p. 100 |
| God's Covenants with the Peoples | p. 103 |
| Covenants Never Revoked | p. 103 |
| The Trinitarian Structure of History | p. 109 |
| "In Many and Various Ways" | p. 114 |
| The God of Revelation | p. 117 |
| "All Have the Same God" | p. 117 |
| The "Wholly Other" and the "Self of the Self" | p. 119 |
| Words and Word of God | p. 125 |
| Words of God and Sacred Books | p. 125 |
| The "Fullness" of Revelation in Jesus Christ | p. 129 |
| Revelation, Differentiated and Complementary | p. 132 |
| The Word of God, Jesus Christ, and the Religions of the World | p. 138 |
| The Universal Action of the Word as Such | p. 139 |
| The Wisdom of God in the Wisdom Tradition | p. 140 |
| The Word of God in the Prologue to St. John's Gospel | p. 142 |
| The Doctrine of the Logos Spermatikos in the Early Fathers of the Church | p. 147 |
| The Universality of the Word and the Centrality of the Event of Jesus Christ | p. 156 |
| The Centrality of the Event of Jesus Christ | p. 157 |
| The Universality of the Word | p. 159 |
| The "One Mediator" and "Participated Mediations" | p. 163 |
| Universal Savior and Unique Mediator | p. 169 |
| New Testament Christology Revisited and Interpreted | p. 169 |
| The Human Face of God | p. 173 |
| The Universal Presence of the Holy Spirit | p. 178 |
| Mediation and Mediations | p. 182 |
| Various Paths to a Common Goal | p. 182 |
| Participated Mediations of Salvation | p. 185 |
| Discernment of Saving Values | p. 190 |
| The Reign of God, the Church, and the Religions | p. 195 |
| Reign of God and Church: Identity or Distinction? | p. 197 |
| Recent History of Relationships between Church and Reign of God | p. 197 |
| Joint Members and Builders of the Reign of God | p. 201 |
| "Outside the Church No Salvation"? | p. 203 |
| The Church and the Religions in the Reign of God | p. 206 |
| Necessity of the Church | p. 206 |
| The Church, Sacrament of the Kingdom | p. 213 |
| Interreligious Dialogue in a Pluralistic Society | p. 218 |
| The Theological Foundation of Dialogue | p. 222 |
| "Mystery of Unity" | p. 222 |
| Dialogue and Proclamation | p. 225 |
| The Challenges and Fruits of Dialogue | p. 228 |
| Commitment and Openness | p. 228 |
| Personal Faith and the Experience of the Other | p. 230 |
| Mutual Enrichment | p. 232 |
| Interreligious Prayer | p. 236 |
| Praying Together: Why? | p. 239 |
| From Dialogue to Common Prayer | p. 239 |
| The Religions, God's Gifts to Humankind | p. 241 |
| Praying Together: How? | p. 242 |
| Common Prayer between Christians and Jews | p. 243 |
| Common Prayer between Christians and Muslims | p. 245 |
| Common Prayer between Christians and the "Others" | p. 248 |
| Conclusion | p. 253 |
| Religious Pluralism in Principle | p. 254 |
| Mutual Asymmetrical Complementarity | p. 255 |
| A Qualitative Leap | p. 258 |
| Postscript | p. 260 |
| Index | p. 265 |
| A Word on "the Christ Mandala" of Nalini Jayasuriya | p. 276 |
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