The book attempts to create an adequate philosophical model of the encounter of religions, including their different views on Absolute, salvation, different religious ethics, patterns of sainthood and mystical experience. My primary, and at the same time critical, point of reference is the conception of religious pluralism created by John Hick. The model resulting from this analysis is called radical religious pluralism (RPR). The main idea of RPR is that in order to avoid inadequacies and fallacies that happened to Hick’s model, consistent religious pluralism has to assume pluralisty of Reals, that is Absolute Beings. In this way, Jahweh, Allah, Triune God, Buddha and Dao are separate referents of respective religious paths, a view that might be referred to as analytical polytheism.
Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy