Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?: Jesus, Revelation and Religious Traditions by Gerald R. McDermott

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Gerald McDermott attempts to answer this question in this challenging work. He says, “…as far as I know, no evangelicals have yet examined the religions in any sort of substantive way for what Christians can learn without sacrificing… the finality of Christ. This book is the beginning of an evangelical theology of the religions that addresses not the question of salvation but the problem of truth and revelation…it explores the biblical propositions that Jesus is the light that enlightens every person (Jn 1:9) and that God has not left Himself without a witness among non-Christian traditions (Acts 14:17). It argues that if Saint Augustine learned from Neo-Platonism to better understand the gospel, if Thomas Aquinas learned from Aristotle to better understand the Scriptures, and if John Calvin learned from Renaissance humanism, perhaps evangelicals may be able to learn from the Buddha--and other great religious thinkers and traditions--things that can help them more clearly understand God's revelation in Christ. It is an introductory word in a conversation that I hope will go much further among evangelicals.”

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