Ours is an age of cultural and religious pluralism. What does this imply for Christian faith and mission? Our Lord still calls us to Go into all the world and preach…; but the going – and the world – to which the command relates, needs to be seen in more than geographical terms. Christian conviction must go into the whole bewildering contemporary world with its diversity of faiths, symbols, myths, creeds, and practice; and also into the realm of indifference to all these.
But how? Kenneth Cragg sketches course of the Christian debates with other religion during the course of this century so far, and shows what the believes should be the proper stance of the Christian to those whose beliefs differ from his own. In an attitude of contemporary realism and instinctive courtesy, he seeks to penetrate patiently into what others believe – and why.