Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious diversity, historical consciousness, and Christian theology / Gordon D. Kaufman -- The non-absoluteness of Christianity / John Hick -- Plurality and its theological implications / Langdon Gilkey -- Idolatry : in comparative perspective / Wilfred Cantwell Smith -- The cross and the rainbow : Christ in a multireligious culture / Stanley J. Samartha -- The Jordan, the Tiber, and the Ganges : three kairological moments of Christic self-consciousness / Raimundo Panikkar -- "I" in the words of Jesus / Seiichi Yagi -- Feminism and Jewish-Christian dialogue : particularism and universalism in the search for religious truth / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- In search of justice : religious pluralism from a feminist perspective / Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki -- The Buddha and the Christ : mediators of liberation / Aloysius Pieris -- Toward a liberation theology of religions / Paul F. Knitter -- The case for pluralism / Tom F. Driver.