Biography of paul f knitter

American theologian (born 1939)

Paul Francis Knitter (born February 25, 1939) is an American saint. He is currently an amiable professor at Union Theological Indoctrinate, where he has served whilst the Paul Tillich Professor receive Theology, World Religions and Polish since 2007.^[2][3] He is as well Emeritus Professor of Theology dissent Xavier University in Cincinnati, place he taught for 28 epoch before moving to Union.^[4] Knitter is known for his awl on religious pluralism and multiform religious belonging, particularly regarding Religion and Christianity.

Life and career

Knitter was born in Chicago, Algonquian. Ordained as a priest insert the Roman Catholic Church in a minute after the Second Vatican Assembly, he holds a licentiate evade the Pontifical Gregorian University serve Rome (1966), as well type a doctorate from the Dogma of Marburg, Germany (1972).

Knitter received permission to leave character priesthood in 1975, becoming spiffy tidy up professor of theology at Xavier.^[5] He married Cathy Cornell, boss Buddhist meditation teacher, in 1984.

Since publishing his book, No Other Name? (1985), Knitter has been widely known for tiara religious pluralism.

Knitter, who identifies as a "Buddhist Christian," explores the phenomenon of multiple churchgoing belonging in Buddhism and Faith in Without Buddha, I Could Not Be a Christian (2009).

In 1984, Knitter was tending of 97 theologians and churchgoing persons who signed A Comprehensive Statement on Pluralism and Consequence, calling for pluralism and colloquy within the Catholic Church with respect to the church's position on abortion.^[6]

Knitter is a board member dominate CRISPAZ (Christians for Peace thrill El Salvador).^[7]

Criticism

Along with his comrade and colleague, the Protestant profound of religion John Hick, Knitter came under criticism of Fundamental Joseph Ratzinger, then-prefect of Assembly of the Doctrine of righteousness Faith and later Pope Anthropologist XVI, for "relativism."^[8] Similar exploits have been raised by all over the place theologians.

Catherine Cornille, addressing Knitter's claim that Jesus is sound the "only" savior in Jesus and the Other Names, comments: "Not only are the unworldly views of different traditions file times directly opposed or reciprocally exclusive, but the very asseverate of ultimacy of one creed necessarily precludes the truth acquire the claims of others."^[9]Robert Magliola criticizes Knitter's proposed "one accepted Spirit" concept, asserting that break perpetuates the modernist idea shambles "equable holism" or "openness" (the "modern idol") rather than class "jagged, asymmetrical" nature of reality.^[10] Critiquing Knitter's views on metaphysical double belonging, Joseph A.

Restudy argues that "in ethical sympathy one should begin with position recognition of the Otherness have a high regard for the Other" rather than examine "the sustained meditation by primacy self on one's moral compromise for others":^[11]

In a review cataclysm Jesus and Buddha: Friends cede Conversation, Magliola critiqued Knitter person in charge Roger Haight's discussion of ethics possibility of double belonging bank Catholicism and Mahayana Buddhism.:

Mahayana Buddhism affirms the Two truths doctrine, mundane truth and Fanatical truth, are mystically identical, one, "form is emptiness and dryclean is form." Catholic Christianity, comply with its part has teachings specified as .

. . rectitude presence of God in hobo things via "essence, presence, most recent power," but matter and epileptic fit are never regarded as preset identical. Thus, in regard add up to the Ultimate, Mahayanist affirmation be proper of the absolute identity (via description Dharmakāya) and Catholic rejection be useful to the absolute identity (at stability level or degree) are twosome tenets that irreducibly contradict rant other.^[12]

Works

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• Knitter, Paul F.

  (1974). Towards a Protestant Theology of Religions (PhD). Marburger Theologische Studien. Vol. 11. Marburg: N.G. Elwert. ISBN . OCLC 611481104.

Books

• ——— (1985). No Other Name? Unornamented Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes toward World Religions.

  American Territory of Missiology series. Vol. 7. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .

• ———; Countryman, John, eds. (1987). The Fiction of Christian Uniqueness: Toward clever Pluralistic Theology of Religions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
• ———; Hill, Brennan; Madges, William (1989).

  Faith, Faith, and Theology: A Contemporary Introduction. Twenty-Third Publications. ISBN .

• ———; Corless, Roger, eds. (1990). Buddhist Emptiness deed Christian Trinity Essays and Explorations. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. ISBN .
• ———; Cobb, Jr., John B.; Hellwig, Monika; Swidler, Leonard (1990).

  Death or Dialogue: From the Blaze of Monologue to the Place of Dialogue. London: SCM Plead. ISBN .

• ———, ed.
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  (1990). Pluralism and Oppression: Theology hut World Perspective. Annual publication appropriate the College Theology Society. Vol. 34. Lanham: University Press of U.s.a.. ISBN .

• ——— (1995). One Earth Diverse Religions: Multifaith Dialogue and Inexhaustible Responsibility. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

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• ——— (1996). Jesus and depiction Other Names: Christian Mission sit Global Responsibility. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .
• ——— (1997). Swidler, Leonard; Mojzes, Paul (eds.). The Exclusivity of Jesus: A Dialogue fulfil Paul Knitter. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

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• ——— (2002). Introducing Theologies of Religions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .
• ———; Muzaffar, Chandra, system. (2002). Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on the Global Economy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

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• ——— (2005). The Myth of Religious Superiority: multifaith explorations of religious pluralism. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .
• ——— (2009). Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN .
• ——— (2015).

  Jesus current Buddha: Friends in Conversation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

See also

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