舉步維艱──麥格夫論宗教多元主義／蘇遠泰
撮要
持守福音信仰的不同學者，在非基督宗教是否提供拯救的課題上可能有不同的意見，但他們均反對希克所提出的宗教多元主義，即以為世界各大宗教不過是同一絕對真實的不同反映，各大宗教均可以度人回歸真實，過以真實為中心的生活。本文探討英國福音信仰學者麥格夫如何批評希克的學說，並討論麥格夫對其他宗教是否提供拯救這問題的態度。筆者指出，麥格夫對希克的批評所採用的方法和推理，可能產生更開放多元的宗教局面，相信不是福音信仰者所願意見到的；但這已是麥格夫在後現代的紛亂世界裡，為基督教的合法性爭取最大權益的努力。
ABSTRACT
The opinions of whether other religions’ salvations are valid or not are diversified among evangelical scholars; yet they all oppose the hypothesis of religious pluralism proposed by John Hick. Hick thinks that different world religions represent different manifestations of the same ultimate Real. Therefore they all provide the same soteriological power, that is changing the living attitude of the believers from self- centeredness to Reality-centeredness. This article studies the critique of Hick’s hypothesis by the famous Anglican evangelical scholar Alister E. McGrath, and also evaluates McGrath’s post-enlightenment approach of religious pluralism. It shows that McGrath’s hypothesis may produce even more open the diverse religious situation. The author points out that although the evangelicals do not expect the conclusion of that situation, there is no serious mistake committed, because it has been the greatest interest that McGrath fights for Christianity in the postmodern era.
原載於《建道學刊》19期（2003年1月），頁71-93。
