Harvard professor, Diana Eck, on myths about pluralism
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- Harvard professor and director of The Pluralism Project, Diana Eck, shares her thoughts on the myths surrounding pluralism at The Veritas Forum at Harvard, 2012.
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She talks about Christian religion as if it was merely a lifestyle and nothing more. Fulton J Sheen has an amazing talk about comparing world religions; it's available here on CZcams.
Thank you for your effort madam. I am better for having watched this video.
As a Buddhist convert who has spent a fair share of time pondering on the subject matter (due to personal reasons), I do take concern in the implication of you, a subject matter expert saying "I went to India, it wasn't Vietnam but it was close enough", if the claim was meant to be interpreted metaphorically. I also disagree with you on some of the claims you made highlighting the differences between pluralism and moral relativism, maybe they were not meant to be taken at face value but I do like to think that relativism is potent at the moment.
Ma'am let me correct you that Ali Asani is not jewish but he is Shia Ismaili Muslim. He is follower of Karim Aga Khan.
Visit our podcast Dharma Yoga Ashram. We explore this issuse of pluralism: Mono vs. Poly
Attempting to infuse “pluralism” and cultural-relativism, necessarily conflicts with core religious doctrine. The professor ignores the singular but shared element at the heart of every religion: “There’s only one true path to salvation, and all other faiths are mistaken, and profoundly so.” The professor’s conception of faith, evolved through experience and education, is seemingly infinitely elastic and never allows her to call a spade a spade. She has stretched her faith to include all faiths but on the whole, the religious aren’t that flexible on their core doctrine. Convincing the religious to consider other faiths to be equally valid paths to salvation, and hence worthy of celebration, is an impossible task in need of a miracle.
Exactly, even defining Christianity as a religion from a Christian perspective denotes that the Gospel isn't the truth then. Christianity is a relationship with Jesus and through that relationship everything else falls into place. But I think one point she is making that is very important is approaching others touching upon their humanity which is how Jesus approached people. He never did it from a perspective of his office of divinity or of authority or as the servant but as the man. Those other offices of Christ Jesus we discover and know after we've formed a relationship with him. But if we approach others in that aspect it turns off the unbeliever which is why Jesus never did it other than in rebuking.
Look at the inhetent blindness in making "God" the accepted term.