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Resources for a Restoration Theology of Religions RESOURCES FOR A RESTORATION THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS MATTHEW EMILE VAUGHAN Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York This essay has to do with the burgeoning field of Christian theologies of non-Christian religions.1 I hope to put discussions of theologies of religions (and, to a lesser extent, comparative theology and interreligious dialogue) into conversation with the theologies of the Churches of Christ as I, as a lifelong member, understand them. I will argue that Churches of Christ have a number of theological resources from which to frame a rationale for, and structure the components of, a robust theology of religions—one that is unique as a Restora- tion tradition and that speaks to the larger Christian community. In writing this essay to academic and church leaders from within the Stone- Campbell Movement (SCM), particularly Churches of Christ, I hope to accom- plish three equally difficult (and admittedly lofty) tasks. The first task is simply to do theology, continuing the process of collective reflection in Churches of Christ about non-Christian religions.2 My second, and most pressing, task has to do with laying the groundwork for that theological reflection. I will attempt to tease out the salient resources—theological foci and hermeneutical principles—already in use in the literature and thought of the SCM regarding non-Christian religions. My goal is to show that these resources provide a basis for future discussions. 1 By “Christian theology of religions” I mean a responsibly structured Christian ap- proach to non-Christian religions and their practitioners. This is, for the most part, the consensus title given to an enormous body of literature (largely from the late 20th and early 21st c.). I will extrapolate from this term both the scaffold (using established foci and the language of Christian theological inquiry) and the scope (framing, in necessar- ily broad terms, an approach to the myriad religions of the world) of this essay. While scholars typically prefer more nuanced perspectives, there are three very general strands of theologies of religions: “exclusivism” (rejecting the validity of non-Christian religions), “inclusivism” (accepting elements of non-Christian religions), and “pluralism” (embracing non-Christian religions). 2 In defining the theological agenda, I follow the lead of Paul Knitter. He argues that theology is “a mutually clarifying and mutually criticizing conversation between Christian experience and beliefs on the one side and ongoing human experience and understanding of self and the world on the other side.” See his “The Meeting of Religions: A Christian Debate,” in Only One Way? Three Christian Responses to the Uniqueness of Christ in a Pluralistic World (London: SCM Press, 2011), 47–48. 236 RESTORATION QUARTERLY 55:4 (2013) My third task is to elucidate the academically centered foundations of the second task by providing bibliographic support for theologians and ministers who are interested in taking these conversations further. The essay includes a summary of approaches to non-Christian religions from within each of the three main branches of the SCM. I sketch the most important resources each perspec- tive provides, and I include reflections on the potential uses of these resources. I conclude by enumerating several other previously neglected resources that Churches of Christ might use in shaping a theology of religions. In this sense, this essay serves as a survey of, and introduction to, the literature of the field: in the body of the essay I deal mostly with the theologians writing from within the SCM; in the footnotes I offer supplementary bibliographic information, high- lighting the thinkers from a variety of backgrounds whose views I think should have some bearing on our reflection. The reality of globalization is nowhere more apparent than within the religious culture of the United States,3 and this affects Churches of Christ. The United States is home to some of the most diverse cities in the world, even in the South.4 Currently in the United States the populations of Jews (up to 6 million), Muslims (up to 4.5 million), and Buddhists (up to 4 million) are each more than twice that of Churches of Christ (up to 2 million). Churches of Christ, like many major Christian denominations, are shrinking in the United States.5 The news is not to- tally negative, as Christianity is growing in the global South—though in a number of highly religiously diverse places (specifically sub-Saharan Africa and India).6 It is becoming increasingly clear that interreligious cooperation (I would add as a precursor to that, theology of religions) will be one of the central impera- tives facing Christianity in the twenty-first century. This rise in globalization and religious diversity has already given birth to new theological disciplines (for example, comparative theology7) and contexts (interfaith seminaries and 3 Robert Wuthnow, America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005); Diana Eck, A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Now Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001). 4 James C. Cobb, Globalization and the American South (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005). See also the fascinating statistics given by Frederick W. Norris regarding religious diversity in the Tri-Cities, TN in his “Religious Demographics and the New Diversity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (ed. Chad Meister; Oxford: OUP, 2011), 209–211. 5 See the constantly updated statistics at http://pluralism.org/resources/statistics / tradition.php. Accessed 13 Dec. 2011. For information on Churches of Christ, see the American Religious Identification Survey (2008), available at: commons.trin coll.edu / aris/files/2011/08/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf. Accessed 13 Dec. 2011. 6 Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (rev. & exp. ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). 7 By way of defining “comparative theology,” I turn to John Renard, “Comparative Theology: Definition and Method,”Religious Studies and Theology 17:1 (1998): 5: “As a historical discipline, Comparative Theology investigates the mechanisms and assumptions behind both the implied and expressed comparisons that have resulted in theological change in a variety of historical and cultural contexts. As a systematic discipline, Comparative Theology builds on the historical data as it seeks to elaborate not only the relationships VAUGHAN/RESOURCES FOR A RESTORATION THEOLOGY 237 community outreach programs). To complicate matters, many Evangelical communities (within which I include Churches of Christ8) have not outlined systematic theologies of religions. One might argue that Churches of Christ do have a de facto functional approach to all non-Christian religious Others: extra ecclesiam nulla salus (“outside the church there is no salvation”). This ideology often plays itself out with an implicit (therefore unevaluated) “soteriology of the unevangelized.”9 For reasons, however, that I hope will become clear below, it is time to reframe the discussion. It is time for a new theology of religions—one that is centered on the images, points of departure, and sensibilities that Churches of Christ bring to the table. My concern in this essay is not necessarily to encourage Churches of Christ to rethink our Christology or renounce our convictions; to the contrary, my argument is that we use those unique convictions as a springboard for reflection, dialogue, and constructive theology. The Religious Other in Current Stone-Campbell Perspective I will now develop a treatment of current Stone-Campbell literature by high- lighting indicative perspectives on non-Christian religions from within the three branches of the SCM (Churches of Christ, Independent Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ). This is not an exhaustive bibliographic treatment; it is an attempt to synthesize the approaches that have been expounded within each branch and to extrapolate the resources those approaches provide for future reflection. Perspectives from Churches of Christ Several members of Churches of Christ have reflected on the issue of religious diversity, only two of whom have produced writing on the subject: Ed Mathews and Lee Camp.10 The two authors differ significantly in their ap- between Christian and other theological systems, but the very shape of Christian theology itself. It avoids polemics while nevertheless arriving at solid historical and systematic judgments about the dynamics of theological change.” 8 See the convincing arguments in favor of including Churches of Christ in the Evan- gelical camp in Edward Myers, “Churches of Christ (A Cappella): Are We Evangelical?” in Evangelicalism and The Stone-Campbell Movement (vol 1.; ed. William R. Baker; Downers Grove, IN: InterVarsity Press, 2002), 50–67. 9 I have borrowed this term from Amos Yong, Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneu- matological Theology of Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003). I return to Yong in greater depth below. 10 Three men who have not published their work also come to mind immediately. In an academic context, Dr. Stacy Patty, from Lubbock Christian University, has participated in the American Academy of Religion’s 2009–2010 Summer Seminar in the Theology of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology. Also, Dr. Lynn Mitchell, a professor of religion at the University of Houston, has presented numerous papers and lectures on interfaith
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