Paul F. Knitter
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- PhD Theology Marquette University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Francis Knitter is an American theologian. He is currently an emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary, where he has served as the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture since 2007. He is also Emeritus Professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he taught for 28 years before moving to Union. Knitter is known for his work on religious pluralism and multiple religious belonging, particularly regarding Buddhism and Christianity.
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Published Works
- Introducing Theologies of Religions (2002) (166)
- No Other Name?: A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes toward the World Religions. Author's Response (1985) (151)
- One Earth Many Religions: Multifaith Dialogue and Global Responsibility (1995) (97)
- The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (1988) (91)
- Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian (2009) (58)
- Zen Buddhism: A History (1988) (56)
- Jesus and the Other Names: Christian Mission and Global Responsibility. Author's Response (1997) (41)
- The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (2012) (30)
- Transforming Christianity and the world : a way beyond absolutism and relativism (1999) (29)
- Social Work and Religious Diversity: Problems and Possibilities (2010) (25)
- Review of The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, by Jonathan Sacks (2003) (16)
- Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 1: India and China@@@Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 2: Japan. (1991) (15)
- Controversies in Interreligious Dialogue and the Theology of Religions. By Paul Hedges. London: SCM Press, 2010. viii + 287 pages. $30.00 (paper). (2012) (12)
- Mission and Dialogue (2005) (11)
- Inter‐Religious Dialogue and Social Action (2013) (10)
- Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity: Essays and Explorations (1990) (10)
- Faith, Religion & Theology: A Contemporary Introduction (1997) (9)
- The uniqueness of Jesus : a dialogue with Paul F. Knitter (1997) (8)
- Response to Reviews of "Faith, Religion and Theology: A Contemporary Introduction" (1990) (8)
- A "Hypostatic Union" of Two Practices but One Person? (2012) (7)
- Book Review: The Solidarity of others in a Divided World: A Postmodern Theology after Postmodernism (2005) (7)
- Doing Theology Interreligiously Union and the Legacy of Paul Tillich (2011) (7)
- World Religions and the Finality of Christ: a Critique of Hans Küng's On Being A Christian (1978) (7)
- Towards a protestant theology of religions : a case study of Paul Althaus and contemporary attitudes (mit deutscher Zusammenfassung ) (1974) (6)
- My God is Bigger than your God (2007) (6)
- Roman Catholic Approaches to other Religions: Developments and Tensions (1984) (6)
- Islam and Christianity Sibling Rivalries and Sibling Possibilities (2009) (5)
- Encounters in Faith: Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue by Peter Feldmeier (review) (2015) (5)
- Can Only One Religion Be True?:: A Dialogue (2013) (4)
- Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity (2010) (4)
- Pitfalls and Promises for a Global Ethics (1995) (4)
- Pluralism: The Future of Religion. By Kenneth Rose. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. x + 190 pages. $110.00. (2015) (4)
- The Divine Quest, East and West: A Comparative Study of Ultimate Realities. By James L. Ford. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. xvii + 411 pages. $28.95. (2017) (3)
- Theocentric Christology (1983) (3)
- Interpreting Silence: A Response to Miikka Ruokanen (1990) (3)
- Overcoming Greed: Buddhists and Christians in Consumerist Society (2005) (3)
- Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation. - I A Christian Introduction (1988) (3)
- Toward a liberative interreligious dialogue (1995) (3)
- Religious Pluralism and Religious Imagination: Can a Pluralistic Theology Sustain Christian Faith? (2002) (3)
- Christomonism in Karl Barth’s Evaluation of the Non-Christian Religions (1971) (3)
- A Common Creation Story? Interreligious Dialogue and Ecology (2000) (3)
- Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation (1988) (3)
- Without Walls = Multiple Belonging? (2017) (2)
- THEOCENTRIC CHRISTOLOGY: DEFENDED AND TRANSCENDED (1987) (2)
- Searching for the Common Thread within Religions (1998) (2)
- Introducing Theologies of Religions. Author's Response (2003) (2)
- Religious Diversity: What to Make of It . . . How to Engage It? A Conversation with Paul Moser and Keith Yandell (2009) (2)
- Horizons on Christianity's New Dialogue with Buddhism (1981) (2)
- European Protestant and Catholic approaches to the world religions: complements and contrasts (1975) (2)
- Christian Theology in the Post-Modern Era (2005) (2)
- Key Questions for a Theology of Religions (1990) (2)
- Religious pluralism in theological education (1992) (2)
- Challenges of Interreligious and Intercultural Cooperation Today (2012) (2)
- The Pluralist Path: Where We’ve been and Where We’re Going (2016) (1)
- Christian-Muslim Dialogue (2007) (1)
- Comparative Theology Is Not “Business-as-Usual Theology”: Personal Witness from a Buddhist Christian (2015) (1)
- Common Ground or Common Response (1992) (1)
- CHRISTIANITY AND THE RELIGIONS: A ZERO-SUM GAME? RECLAIMING THE PATH NOT TAKEN AND THE LEGACY OF KRISTER STENDAHL (2011) (1)
- Religion, Power, Dialogue (2005) (1)
- Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralistic World—with a little help from Nagarjuna. By John Keenan, Sydney Copp, Lansing Davis, and Buster G. Smith. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009. xii + 123 pages. $17.00 (paper). (2010) (1)
- The New Comparative Theology: Interreligious Insights from the Next Generation . Edited by Francis X. Clooney, SJ. New York: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2010. xix + 208 pages. $29.95 (paper). (2011) (1)
- Can We Put Our Theological Money Where Our Dialogical Mouth Is? Looking Back over the Past Fifty Years (2014) (1)
- Jesus-Buddha-Krishna: still present? (1979) (1)
- Dialogical Theology and Social Engagement (2020) (1)
- The Vocation of an Interreligious Theologian: My Retrospective on Forty Years in Dialogue (2004) (1)
- Are Buddhism and Christianity Commensurable?: A Debate/Dialogue between Paul Knitter and Peter Feldmeier (2016) (1)
- Sic et Non: Encountering Dominus Iesus. Edited by Pope Stephen J. and Hefling Charles. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2002. xi + 204 pages. $25.00 (paper). (2003) (1)
- CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD OTHER RELIGIONS: THE CHALLENGE OF COMMITMENT AND OPENNESS (2004) (1)
- Response to Reviews of "No Other Name? Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions" (1986) (1)
- Review of "Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton," by Christopher Pramuk (2010) (0)
- Response to Part II (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. By Robert Wright (2018) (0)
- The Impact of World Religions on Academic and Ecclesial Theology (2013) (0)
- A New Way of Being Christian (2015) (0)
- Book Review: The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (2009) (0)
- Understanding Interreligious Relations . Edited by David Cheetham, Douglas Pratt, and David Thomas. London: Oxford University Press, 2013. 464 pages. $35.00 (paper). (2014) (0)
- Review of Theology and the Dialogue of Religions, by By Michael Barnes (2004) (0)
- Dialogue about Dialogue (2016) (0)
- Interreligious Hermeneutics. Edited by Catherine Cornille and Christopher Conway. (Interreligious Dialogue Series, Vol. 2) Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010. xxi + 254 pages. $30.00 (paper). (2011) (0)
- Response: Clear Distinctions but Uncertain Paths (2013) (0)
- Book Review: Karl Barth—Rudolf Bultmann: Briefwechsel 1922–1966 (1972) (0)
- Christianity 2017: Reflections on the Protestant Reformation by Tony Equale (review) (2017) (0)
- What is German Protestant Theology Saying About the Non- Christian Religions? (1973) (0)
- Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics. Four Perspectives - II (1981) (0)
- Symbiotic Supremacies: Racial and Religious (2019) (0)
- Index for Volume Eight, 1981 (1981) (0)
- Rita Gross: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue about Dialogue (2011) (0)
- Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation. - III A Christian Response (1988) (0)
- Book Review: Theology and the Dialogue of Religions (2004) (0)
- A Monk Sacred and Profane (1986) (0)
- Index for Volume Thirty, 2003 (2003) (0)
- A Dialogical Church: Newly Born and Still Growing (1999) (0)
- [ One Earth Many Religions : multifaith dialogue & global responsibility ]Satu Bumi Banyak Agama : dialog multiagama dan tanggung jawab global (2015) (0)
- Liberation Theology and Engaged Buddhism: Challenging Each Other, Learning from Each Other (2016) (0)
- Book Review: The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd: Finding Christ on the Buddha’s Path. By Addison Hodges Hart (2014) (0)
- Dialogue and Liberation: What I Have Learned from My Friends—Buddhist and Christian (2015) (0)
- Is Jesus Unique? A Study of Recent Christology. By Cowdell Scott. New York: Paulist, 1996. viii + 455 pages. $24.95 (paper). (1998) (0)
- Buddhist-Christian Dialogue Events (1988) (0)
- Can we be open to others but committed to the Gospel (2003) (0)
- The Question of Salvation/Liberation: A Double-Belonger’s Perspective (2017) (0)
- It Is Possible: Subverting Hatred and Greed (2008) (0)
- THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH'S RESPONSE TO PLURALISM (2010) (0)
- Review of: Hans Waldenfels, Absolute Nothingness: Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (1982) (0)
- Triple dialogue of Asian church may re-evangelize the West (2002) (0)
- Ways to the Center. An Introduction to World Religions. By Carmody Denise Lardner and Carmody John Tully. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1981. xiv + 408 pages. $17.95. (1982) (0)
- Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks by Kenneth Rose (2020) (0)
- Virtuous Comparativists Are Practicing Pluralists (2012) (0)
- Comparative Theology: A Critical and Methodological Perspective. By Paul Hedges. Brill Research Perspectives in Theology. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 89 pages. $84.00. (2018) (0)
- Many Mansions: A Christian's Encounter with Other Faiths by Harvey Cox. Boston, Beacon, 1988. 216 pp. $18.95 (1989) (0)
- Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism. By Sallie B. King. Topics in Contemporary Buddhism. Edited by George G. Tanabe Jr. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. xii + 291 pages. $45.00. (2007) (0)
- Faith, Religion & Theology: A Contemporary Introduction. Author's Response (1990) (0)
- Review of Hieromonk Silouan. Wisdom Songs: A Book of Wisdom Chapters in Five Centuries. (2010) (0)
- The Intrareligious Dialogue. By Raimundo Panikkar. New York: Paulist Press, 1978. xxviii + 104 pages. $5.95. (1980) (0)
- Justice as the “Common Cause” for Interreligious Dialogue? Revisiting a Complex Question (2011) (0)
- Book Review: A Theology of World Religions (1989) (0)
- Sitting and Acting—Both are Essential: A Response to Kyeongil Jung (2014) (0)
- Buddhists and Christians in Holland: A Historic Encounter (1988) (0)
- My Buddha-nature and my Christ-nature (2019) (0)
- Meister, Chad, ed.The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii+456 pp. $150 (cloth). (2014) (0)
- Dealing with Diversity: Evangelical/Pentecostal and Mainline Perspectives on Religious Pluralism (2008) (0)
- Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World by Miroslav Volf (2016) (0)
- The Long Haul (2005) (0)
- Alan Brill. Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding (2012) (0)
- What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism (2016) (0)
- Buddhologie Und Christologie: Unterwegs Zu Einer Kol-Laborativen Theologie by John D’Arcy May (review) (2016) (0)
- Review of "Making Harmony: Living in a Pluralist World," by Michael Amaladoss (2004) (0)
- Review of "Make/Believing the World(s): Toward a Christian Ontological Pluralism," by Mark S. McLeod-Harrison (2010) (0)
- Commitment to One—Openness to Others: A Challenge for Christians (2001) (0)
- Index for Volume Fourteen, 1987 (1987) (0)
- Book Review:A Question of Final Belief: John Hick's Pluralistic Theory of Salvation Chester Gillis (1990) (0)
- In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology . By Gordon D. Kaufman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. xv + 509 pages. $17.95. (1995) (0)
- Author's Reply (1990) (0)
- Spirituality of Liberation: Toward a Political Holiness. Three Perspectives - I (1989) (0)
- Book Review: The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (2003) (0)
- Jesus the Man and the Myth: A Contemporary Christology. By Mackey James P.. New York: Paulist Press, 1979. viii + 311 pages. $8.95 (paper). (1980) (0)
- Interfaith Dialogue at the Grass Roots: Rebecca Kratz Mays, editor: Philadelphia: Ecumenical Press, 2008. 131 pp. $15.00 (2010) (0)
- Book Review:God Has Many Names: Britain's New Religious Pluralism John Hick (1984) (0)
- Seeking Buddhist-Christian Understanding Friends in Dialogue (2021) (0)
- God or Christ: The Excesses of Christocentricity. By Milet Jean. Translated by Bowden John. New York: Crossroad, 1981. x + 261 pages. $12.95. (1982) (0)
- Book Review: Jacques Dupuis Faces the Inquisition: Two Essays by Jacques Dupuis on Dominus Iesus and the Roman Investigation of His Work (2013) (0)
- The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahayana Meditations by John P. Keenan (review) (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Missionstheologie (1981) (0)
- Review: Sophia: The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton (2010) (0)
- Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today: New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships. Four Perspectives - II (2012) (0)
- Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume. Edited by Stephanie Kaza. Boston: Shambhala, 2005. ix + 271 pages. $16.95 (paper). (2006) (0)
- Confirmation through Conflict? Some Questions for the Dialogue of Touchstones (1987) (0)
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