Within a pluralistic society there are multiple coexisting worldviews and religions and an unspoken pressure to avoid conclusive answers in matters of religion, in fact, to avoid religious conversation altogether. It’s thought better to be tolerant than to be right, but tolerance in this sense is cheap and truth-avoiding. In A World of Religions, Dr. Groothuis takes a different approach, believing that “truth” is more desirable than false belief, religious ignorance, or vain superstition. In this essay, Professor Groothuis looks unflinchingly at the world’s major religions—Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism—comparing them to Christianity, and finding them wanting. While favoring Christianity, the open analysis still provides a platform for dialogue and disagreement.
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DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS holds a PhD in Philosophy (University of Oregon, 1993) and is Distinguished University Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Worldview at Cornerstone University. He is the author of twenty books, including the best-selling Unmasking the New Age (InterVarsity Press, 1986) and World Religions in Seven Sentences (InterVarsity Press, 2023), the popular and voluminous textbook, Christian Apologetics, 2nd ed. (IVP Academic, 2022), as well as a memoir, Walking Through Twilight: A Wife’s Illness—a Philosopher’s Lament (InterVarsity Press, 2017), an introduction to philosophy, Philosophy in Seven Sentences (InterVarsity, 2016), and a book on the controversial topic of Critical Race Theory, Fire in the Streets (Salem Books, 2022). He co-authored the introductory textbook on apologetics, The Knowledge of God in the World and in the Word (Zondervan-Academic, 2022).
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