Review the chapter:Religious Diversity and Truth
Then,Response to the following questions:
1. What are some of the causes of religious conflict?
2. What does secularization mean, and how does it relate to globalization?
3. Write a dialogue among an exclusivist, inclusivist, and a pluralist. In this imagined conversation, make clear the positions of each participant, the reasons for their respective positions, and some of the objections each has to the other's position.
4. Do you think that there are presently no conclusive tests to prove some of the core claims about matters beyond the natural world that religions make? If you disagree, state what you think some of the tests for the truth of core religious beliefs might be. Be as specific as you can.
5. Explain how the concept of a language game may relate to the issue of religious truth.
6. What is the relationship between critical tolerance and the principle of charity?
7. How would you interpret the story of the blind men and the elephant?
8. I argued that there are good reasons to acccept the ideal that all, or nearly all, religions contain partial truth. Do you agree or not? Why?