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A Paradigm Shift? Evangelicals and Interreligious Dialogue

RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER is a crucial issue for the worldwide Christian movement today. Some major religions like Islam are in resurgence. Others have been deeply undermined by hostile governments as Holmes Welch points out in a significant article on Buddhism in China today (1979:119-137). There are those struggling to adapt to the contemporary world witness the efforts of Sri Radhakrishnan, who called Hindus to strike out on more courageous lines of advance in religious reform, building on the foundations of the Vedanta (Devanandan 1954: 132ff). Some religions seek to disassociate themselves from former otherworldly mysticisms and get caught up in the universal concern of war-weary humanity struggling for world community and social justice. When leaders participate in interreligious dialogue, the dominant note is: "We are alike despite our differences. We all seek to give meaning to our common humanity. We are all striving to affirm the worth of human values" (Devanandan 1960:221). The last two decades of the 20th century may well find interreligious cooperation growing throughout the world. Still, all religions are in polemic opposition to Christian missions even though they bear marks, in Latourette's phrase, of "mass modification" resulting from protracted contact with mission vigor throughout the modern era. Hendrik Kraemer agrees: "The great non-Christian religions have utilized the permeation of Christian ideas and ideals for their own internal and external strengthening" (1969:291). Understandably, this indebtedness has not been acknowledged! In the years immediately ahead, these religions will doubtless display mounting hostility toward that segment of the church