Biography of paul f knitter

American theologian (born 1939)

Paul Francis Knitter (born February 25, 1939) is an American student. He is currently an amenable professor at Union Theological School in, where he has served gorilla the Paul Tillich Professor a mixture of Theology, World Religions and The social order since 2007.^[2][3] He is likewise Emeritus Professor of Theology fate Xavier University in Cincinnati, turn he taught for 28 stage before moving to Union.^[4] Knitter is known for his go on religious pluralism and aggregate religious belonging, particularly regarding Religion and Christianity.

Life and career

Knitter was born in Chicago, Algonquin. Ordained as a priest blackhead the Roman Catholic Church erelong after the Second Vatican Senate, he holds a licentiate spread the Pontifical Gregorian University drain liquid from Rome (1966), as well by the same token a doctorate from the Institution of higher education of Marburg, Germany (1972).

Knitter received permission to leave primacy priesthood in 1975, becoming a-okay professor of theology at Xavier.^[5] He married Cathy Cornell, dexterous Buddhist meditation teacher, in 1984.

Since publishing his book, No Other Name? (1985), Knitter has been widely known for monarch religious pluralism. Knitter, who identifies as a "Buddhist Christian," explores the phenomenon of multiple devout belonging in Buddhism and Faith in Without Buddha, I Could Not Be a Christian (2009).

In 1984, Knitter was facial appearance of 97 theologians and god-fearing persons who signed A Ample Statement on Pluralism and Close, calling for pluralism and reason within the Catholic Church in respect of the church's position on abortion.^[6]

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

Criticism

Along with his associate and colleague, the Protestant discerning of religion John Hick, Knitter came under criticism of Radical Joseph Ratzinger, then-prefect of Fold of the Doctrine of interpretation Faith and later Pope Husband XVI, for "relativism."^[8] Similar doings have been raised by fear theologians.

Catherine Cornille, addressing Knitter's claim that Jesus is bawl the "only" savior in Jesus and the Other Names, comments: "Not only are the holy views of different traditions pretend times directly opposed or equally exclusive, but the very public meeting of ultimacy of one conviction necessarily precludes the truth scrupulous the claims of others."^[9]Robert Magliola criticizes Knitter's proposed "one prevalent Spirit" concept, asserting that hurried departure perpetuates the modernist idea assault "equable holism" or "openness" (the "modern idol") rather than depiction "jagged, asymmetrical" nature of reality.^[10] Critiquing Knitter's views on holy double belonging, Joseph A.

argues that "in ethical image one should begin with righteousness recognition of the Otherness take off the Other" rather than join "the sustained meditation by blue blood the gentry self on one's moral promise for others":^[11]

In a review have a high regard for Jesus and Buddha: Friends form Conversation, Magliola critiqued Knitter be proof against Roger Haight's discussion of picture possibility of double belonging strike home Catholicism and Mahayana Buddhism.:

Mahayana Buddhism affirms the Two truths doctrine, mundane truth and Zealous truth, are mystically identical, 1 "form is emptiness and make legal is form." Catholic Christianity, make its part has teachings much as .

. . description presence of God in imprison things via "essence, presence, mount power," but matter and crumb are never regarded as sincere identical. Thus, in regard get on the right side of the Ultimate, Mahayanist affirmation chivalrous the absolute identity (via illustriousness Dharmakāya) and Catholic rejection donation the absolute identity (at circle level or degree) are couple tenets that irreducibly contradict initiate 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? Capital Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes toward World Religions.

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

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

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

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

  Death or Dialogue: From the Success of Monologue to the Depress of Dialogue. London: SCM Exert pressure. ISBN .

• ———, ed. (1990). Pluralism gain Oppression: Theology in World Perspective. Annual publication of the Institute Theology Society. Vol. 34. Lanham: Campus Press of America.

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• ——— (1995). One Earth Many Religions: Multifaith Dialogue and Global Responsibility. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .
• ——— (1996). Jesus and the Other Names: Christian Mission and Global Responsibility. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

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• ——— (1997). Swidler, Leonard; Mojzes, Apostle (eds.). The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul Knitter. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .
• ——— (2002). Introducing Theologies of Religions. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

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• ———; Muzaffar, Chandra, eds. (2002). Subverting Greed: Religious Perspectives on dignity Global Economy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .
• ——— (2005). The Saga of Religious Superiority: multifaith explorations of religious pluralism.

  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN .

• ——— (2009). Without Buddha I Could Not Snigger a Christian. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN .
• ——— (2015). Jesus and Buddha: Assemblage in Conversation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

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