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	Plantinga on Exclusivism
		Exclusivists may be oppressors or imperialists, but not by virtue of being exclusivists.
		The anti-exclusivist is almost certainly not relying just on the fact that the exclusivist is in Condition C. He will probably argue that in the case of religious beliefs, the question of which one is right is particularly obscure and the degree of "epistemic parity" among different sorts of believers is very high.
		Suppose the exclusivist thinks long, hard and prayerfully about her position and continues to think that she is right.
	brindedcow.umd.edu /236/plantinga_on_exclusivism.html (2097 words)

	Religious Diversity (Pluralism) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Summer 2004 Edition)
		Not surprisingly, most exclusivists deny that it is insensitive or arrogant or presumptive for an exclusivist to attempt to convince others that her perspective is the correct one — to tell others that she is right and they are wrong.
		Moreover, exclusivists continue, while it is surely true that some conversion is attempted for what we would all agree are morally inappropriate reasons — for instance, for financial gain or to gain power over others — there is little empirical evidence that exclusivists in general have these motives.
		Many exclusivistic religious systems do require proselytization, and most philosophers who believe that exclusivists are justified in retaining their exclusivistic beliefs in the face of religious diversity believe also that these exclusivists can justifiably feel obligated to attempt to "convert" their epistemic competitors.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/sum2004/entries/religious-pluralism (7101 words)

	Religious Diversity (Pluralism) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Not surprisingly, most exclusivists deny that it is insensitive or arrogant or presumptive for an exclusivist to attempt to convince others that her perspective is the correct one — to tell others that she is right and they are wrong.
		Moreover, exclusivists continue, while it is surely true that some conversion is attempted for what we would all agree are morally inappropriate reasons — for instance, for financial gain or to gain power over others — there is little empirical evidence that exclusivists in general have these motives.
		Many exclusivistic religious systems do require proselytization, and most philosophers who believe that exclusivists are justified in retaining their exclusivistic beliefs in the face of religious diversity believe also that these exclusivists can justifiably feel obligated to attempt to "convert" their epistemic competitors.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/religious-pluralism (7067 words)

	BOOK OF FUNDAMENTALS: CAN FEELINGS ABOUT MIXED SCRIPTURES BE STEADY?
		Exclusivist scriptures may recommend peace, justice, equality and a class- and stateless society at one place, while glorifying war, submission, lordship and the dictatorship of one particular class and the state at another place.
		Any person adhering to an incoherent or polyinterpretable, exclusivist doctrine can therefore in practise think and behave in conformity with the norm of inclusivity so far as 'er relationship with other people is concerned, however much the doctrine 'e formally espouses may deviate from the inclusivistic one.
		When the adherents of an exclusivist ideology founded on mixed scriptures display some kind of humanist, libertarian or egalitarian attitude which is as close as possible to an inclusive one, we are, of course, glad that they do so.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ftptr025/MNI/BoF/1/3/2.HTM (1645 words)

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		One approach to exclusivist texts is to question their authenticity and suggest that they are erroneous, not in the original scripture, but having been added afterwards.
		This approach is to place exclusivist texts in the historical context of the early Christian community who was in the process of trying to establish its identity.
		From a historical perspective, exclusivist verses, such as in John 14:6, are true and valid until the end of the dispensation.
	bahai-library.com /?file=fazel_understanding_exclusivist_texts (9905 words)

	TRINPsite: Book of Fundamentals: The Exclusive and the Inclusive Attitudes
		In the exclusivist belief of the former group there always remains one office which definitely never was held, and definitely never will be held, by somebody of a different race: the office of the supreme being or its purported (onetime) representative on Earth.
		In the man's exclusivist belief there remains always one office which definitely never was held, and definitely never will be held, by a woman: the office of the supreme being or 'His' purported representative on Earth.
		When an ideology is exclusivistic, it contains exclusivist factual, modal and/or normative beliefs or thoughts; it arouses or exploits exclusivist feelings; it creates or depends on exclusivist tendencies; and/or it incites people to act in an exclusivist manner, either by exclusion or by exclusivity.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ftptr025/MNI/BoF/1/3/1.HTM (1545 words)

	TRINPsite: Book of Fundamentals: Monarchism
		The abolition or absence of a particular exclusivist institution or practise does not mean that the social system in question has become or is neutral and inclusive, even not in the field which used to be pervaded by that exclusivism.
		There may be many exclusivist institutions or practises left which result in the same degree or in an even greater degree of inequality than in a system which still displays the particular form of exclusivity or exclusion.
		Whether or not it is claimed to be 'only symbolical' (which it never is), the authoritarian and exclusivist state system it advocates offends first of all against (the spirit of) the right to personhood and the norm of inclusivity.
	www.trinp.org /MNI/BoF/6/2/2.HTM (1213 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Madurai News : Need to maintain pluralistic approach emphasised
		Those operating out of an exclusivist perspective believed that their worldview was the sole and absolute standard for judgement and all other views were fundamentally incorrect or even harmful.
		Those who worked with an exclusivist set of assumptions or stated beliefs were typically unreceptive to the possibility of a deep level of cross-cultural exchange, he said.
		Exclusivist belief systems led to absolute truth claims and there was a psychological and epistemological linkage.
	www.hindu.com /2005/03/11/stories/2005031114170300.htm (492 words)

	Religious Tolerance: An Islamic Perspective
		Even if an Exclusivist is peaceful and apparently respectful towards people belonging to other faiths, he is not doing so as a consequence of his genuine understanding that the other person deserves it.
		However, it could be mentioned on the positive side of the Exclusivist approach that it enables the believer to have the much needed confidence in the ultimate truth of his belief.
		The critics of this approach fear that this much-applauded attribute of Exclusivists brings along with it the dreaded feeling of negation of other faiths, or else the confidence that the believer is seeking would be unachievable.
	www.understanding-islam.com /related/text.asp?type=article&aid=173 (6278 words)

	Exclusivist vs. Inclusivist
		Exclusivists such as the terrorists who carried out the Madrid bombing concentrate on the differences between their religion and everyone else’s, especially that of the despised enemy.
		According to Dr. Ahmed, the exclusivists’ ideas have also resulted in increased violence as well as the persecution and silencing of scholars who do not agree with their interpretation of Islam.
		By taking this path, the exclusivists have negated all the principles of tolerance and compassion for which Islam has historically been noted and then added fuel to the flame by resorting to violence.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=7§ion=0&article=61997&d=12&m=4&y=2005 (1013 words)

	On Pluralism, Intolerance, and the Quran
		The principal means by which the exclusivists were able to promote their view was through the declaration that the many verses calling for pluralism, commanding Muslims to build bridges of understanding with non-Muslims, had been abrogated by other verses that call for fighting the infidel.
		Historically, exclusivist interpretations of the Quran have been used to justify dominion over other Muslims, specifically those whose interpretation of the faith and religious practices were perceived as deviating from the norms established by exclusivists.
		An important dimension of the struggle between the exclusivists and the pluralists is the debate over the role and status of women in Muslim societies, for exclusivists tend to be anti-egalitarian in their interpretations of gender roles.
	www.twf.org /Library/Pluralism.html (3303 words)

	CAIN: John D. Cash. (1998) 'The Dilemmas of Political Transformation in Northern Ireland'
		On all prior occasions when this exclusivist, persecutory form of being, relating, feeling and construing as a political subject has been seriously challenged, political groupings whose identity is strongly invested in its preservation have succeeded in re-colonising the political space and re-asserting the proper pre-eminence of such exclusivist rules.
		It is the effect of the deeply entrenched institutionalisation of exclusivist rules within the cultures of Northern Irish institutions along with the co-presence, now with a new legitimacy, of inclusivist rules which are attempting to displace these entrenched ways of being, doing, feeling and construing.
		In an earlier and more elaborate outline of the characteristics of exclusivist rules the current author commented that if "the monarch herself were so foolhardy as to express a critical opinion, no doubt she too would be seen as disloyal".
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /conflict/cash98.htm (4984 words)

	Religious Diversity (Pluralism) > Notes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The phrase “religious exclusivist” has been used by some as a label for anyone who claims that her perspective on a religious issue is true (and, thus, that any incompatible perspective is false).
		If a person believes that a given perspective on a religious issue is true, then, regardless of the nature or content of that perspective, she is a religious exclusivist; if a person doesn't hold such a belief, then she is not a religious exclusivist with respect to the issue in question.
		Also, it is clearly the case that many exclusivists (for example, many exclusivistic Christians or Muslims) want their epistemic competitors to consider seriously the modification or abandonment of even their rock bottom beliefs on the basis of belief assessment.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/religious-pluralism/notes.html (406 words)

	herbswanson.com
		While many of the respondents may have an understanding of evangelism that is not overtly exclusivist, as the data from Question 6 suggests, it is important to understand that the respondents continue to value evangelism highly even when we would expect differently.
		Table 30 compares the responses to Question 10 with the exclusivist (first) and pluralist (third) responses to Question 5, where the respondents were queried concerning the prospects for salvation of people of other faiths.
		The fact that the respondents do not seem to feel constrained or pressed upon by their social environment suggests that the exclusivist and pluralist strands in the respondents' thinking are largely cultural and historical in nature.
	www.herbswanson.com /ProtestantAttitudesTowards/chapter2.php (3422 words)

	The Controversy Between Modernist and Postmodernist Views of Management Science: Is a Synergy Possible
		Exclusivists hold that biblical Christianity is true, and that other religious systems therefore must be false.
		The exclusivist view relies heavily on the Scripture and tradition as primary sources of revelation, but as seen in the previous section, this does not equal a denial of God working through other means, such as through non-Christian revelation.
		Therefore, the exclusivist view does not seem to provide a convincing argument for a Christian revelation, and certainly does not assist in the contemporary developing dialogue between religions, as it does not allow for salvation outside Christianity.
	www2.sbbs.se /hp/erson/academia/Essaytheol1.htm (4257 words)

	Same_God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		You don't need to demonize other gods to be exclusivist, but certainly under that system belief in other religions is misguided and dangerous because they provide false comfort, thus the Christian exclusivist imperative to convert our wrong-headed neighbors as an act of love before it's too late.
		Under the exclusivist stance the god of Islam is not the same god as the god of Christianity.
		The religious pluralist would agree with Richard Land that Allah of Islam is not the same God as the trinity of Christianity, and certainly the no-God of Buddhism is not the same as the Yahweh of Judaism, nor is the pantheon of Hinduism the same God as the unity of Unitarianism.
	home.comcast.net /~rkamlet/same_god.htm (3023 words)

	herbswanson.com
		Table 34 shows that those with a higher education tend to be somewhat less exclusivist in their responses to Question 11 than either those with a lower or a medium level education.
		Using the exclusivist and pluralist responses to Question 5, again, as a control we can see in Tables 37 and 38 that there is an ideological element involved in the responses to Questions 11 and 12.
		In the context of Buddhist rites, that is, the great majority of the respondents eschewed an explicit appeal to pluralism, and those who had taken a pluralist stand in Question 5 chose in Question 11 to mute their pluralism in ways that did not explicitly deny exclusivism.
	www.herbswanson.com /ProtestantAttitudesTowards/chapter3.php (7027 words)

	Understanding Exclusivist Bahá'i Texts
		There is a series of approaches to apparently exclusivist passages in Bahá'u'llah's writings that minimize their tendency to exclude non-Bahá'is.
		Note: this article is a combination of two separate talks Fazel gave, one at session #1 and the second at session #12.
		How could be such an exclusivist stance be reconciled with other statements in the Baha'i writings that state other religionist are saved: "Blessed is the man who.
	irfancolloquia.org /12/fazel_exclusivist (9872 words)

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		The immoral consequence of exclusivist religious beliefs will be the ultimate defeater of exclusivist beliefs based on A/C type experiences, especially those that involve the instigation of the Holy Spirit.
		Plantinga does not see how it can be shown that the epistemic reasons for exclusivist Christian beliefs are superior to those for the exclusivist beliefs of other religions, and thus clears the way for pragmatic or moral reasons to decide the issue of what one should believe, that is, try to get oneself to believe.
		The consequences of believing A/C-based exclusivist religious propositions are worse than they would have been if one were not to have believed them.
	www.pitt.edu /~rmgale/ap.htm (4111 words)

	King of All Goals
		The exclusivist perspective is the position the church has held through much of history.
		As a Southern Baptist he was reared in the exclusivist position where there is no salvation outside of the Baptist experience of Christ.
		Exclusivists preach "My way is the only way." Inclusivists believe one religion is as good as the next.
	members.tripod.com /mzlaura/Sermon92/11-22-92.htm (1252 words)

	The Cult of Exclusion is the Enemy of Peace
		It was unfashionable of him to speak aloud the implications of his "abiding faith," but exclusivist claims made for Jesus Christ by most Christians, from Vatican corridors to evangelical revival tents, implicitly insult the religion of others.
		In the past, the step from such exclusivist theology to contempt for those excluded has been small indeed, and the step from such contempt to open violence has been even smaller.
		In the 21st century, exclusivist religion, no matter how "mainstream" and no matter how muted the anathemas that follow from its absolutes, is a sure way to religious war.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1023-12.htm (938 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		Kimball understands that the exclusivist position "has been dominant among Christians over the centuries." Furthermore, he understands what the exclusivist's position entails: "It rests on the conviction that Jesus Christ provides the only valid way to salvation." So far, so good.
		Kimball dismisses an exclusivist interpretation of John 14:6 by suggesting that the statement is a mere metaphor.
		In reality, the exclusivist nature of the work of Christ is not based on isolated verses that may be easily taken out of context.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/mohler/1257646.html?view=print (1427 words)

	South Asia: A Battleground Between Muslims and Hindus? by Akbar Ahmed - The Globalist > > Global Culture
		In contrast were the exclusivists — and one of the earliest was Mahmud of Ghazni, who lived from 971 to 1030.
		Islam’s exclusivist expression was tangled with rapacious generals with an eye on plunder.
		Unfortunately, the image of Islam that dominates in the world media and discourse today is inspired by the exclusivists and has become the stereotype of Islam itself.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3762 (1806 words)

	Middle East Institute: Policy Brief
		Ahmed maintains that the former, exclusivist approach emerges when Pakistani society faces a threat and is put on the defensive.
		The exclusivist model that has prevailed throughout Pakstani history and we are seeing it again today.
		The prevailing view in Pakistan –that Islam is under siege- is crystallized by its tense relationship with its non-Muslim Indian neighbor and their frequent collisions.
	www.mideasti.org /articles/doc120.html (885 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
		US foreign policy, as articulated by the neo-conservatives, is bent on dominating and manipulating Muslim societies for achieving narrow economic and geopolitical interests; similarly, exclusivist ideologies continue to inflame the vicious terror campaigns that justify the killing of civilians for achieving political ends.
		It is not difficult for any person aware of the patterns of US foreign policy toward the Muslim world, and of the terror campaign conducted by militant Muslims, to see that the two are interrelated and feed one another.
		American Muslims should equally reject the bigoted spirit of exclusivist ideologies that use religion in all its forms as a weapon for achieving political supremacy and demonize and dehumanize political opponents.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/GE26Aa01.html (984 words)

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