1. Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion trans. John Oman (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1958), p. 175.

2. Cited in Norman Pittenger, The Lure of Divine Love (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1979), pp.164–165. Note that Knitter believes interfaith dialogue should not revolve around God or Christ but around meeting the human need of deliverance from suffering. See Leslie Newbigin’s criticisms of Knitter in Newbigin, “Religious Pluralism and the Uniqueness of Jesus Christ” in J. I. Packer, ed. The Best In Theology (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1990) (267–274), p. 269.

3. Hans Küng, “The World Religions in God’s Plan of Salvation,” in Joseph Neuner, ed. Christian Revelation and World Religions (London: Burns & Oates, 1967) (pp. 25–66), p. 52.

4. John Hick, God Has Many Names (London: Macmillan, 1980), p. 88.

5. See Matthew Fox, Original Blessing (Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Co., 1983), pp. 203–205.

6. Cited by Thomas O’Meara, Romantic Idealism and Roman Catholicism (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982), p. 20.

7. Rosemary Ruether, Womanguides: Readings Toward a Feminist Theology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), pp. ix–xii; Sexism and God-Talk (Beacon, 1983) pp. 21–22.

8. Cited In Stephan A. Hoeller, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1982), p. 194.

9. Cited in Peter Stuhlmacher, Historical Criticism and Theological Interpretation of Scripture trans. Roy A. Harrisville (Phil.: Fortress Press, 1977), p. 39.

10. Ibid.

11. Many feminists also tend to associate patriarchalism with the Jewish ethos, and this accounts for their distrust of Judaism as well as historical Christianity. Susanne Heine warns that “feminist literature, which sweepingly makes ‘the Jews’ and their allegedly martial God responsible for all women’s suffering down the centuries, affords a powerful stimulus to antisemitism.” Susanne Heine, Matriarchs, Goddesses, and Images of God, trans. John Bowden (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1989), p. 166.

12. “Jews Decry Prayer Book,” The Christian Century vol. 107, no. 1 (Jan. 3–10, 1990), p. 10

[This article was originally published in Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, Summer 1991. Touchstone is a monthly ecumenical journal which endeavors to promote doctrinal, moral, and devotional orthodoxy among Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. Copyright © 2004 the Fellowship of St. James. Used with permission.].
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