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Beginning with man's experience of the ultimate reality, the first section of this course analyses the phenomenological structures of religious experience and its expressions. It thus aims at helping the students understand the fundamental structures of the main religions in multi-religious Malaysia.
The second part of the course deals with the Christian view of the plurality of religions and the Church's stand towards them. It server to introduce and integrate the study of the other religions: Islam and Sikhism and Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism.
Section 1: Phenomenology of Religion:
-Phenomenology of Religion
-Types of Religious Experience
Expression of Religious Experience in Thought, Action, Fellowship
Section 2: Theology of Non-Christian Religions:
-Religious Exclusivism, Inclusivism and Pluralism
-The Church's Teaching on Other Religions and Responses
To be confirmed
Section 1: Phenomenology of Religion:
Donovan, Interpreting Religious Experience, New York, The Seabury Press, 1979.
Wach, J, The Comparative Study of Religions, New York, Columbia University Press, 1961.
Van Der Leeuw, G, Religion in Essence and Manifestation. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, London, 1950.
Section 2: Theology of Non-Christian Religions:
John Paul II, Redemptorist Missio
McBrien, Rc, Catholicism, Geoffrey Chapman, London 1994
Ratzinger, J, Dominus lesus on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Ratzinger, J, Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religion, Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2003
Dupius, J. Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, Gujarat 2001
Hick, J, the Myth of Christian Uniqueness
Kintter, P F a Pluralistic Theology of Religion, Maryknoll N. Y, Obis Books 1987
To be confirmed
Fr. Stanley Antoni and other External Lecturers