In Paul Knitter’s first (1985) book, No Other Name?, he struggled with the question of Christian claims to uniqueness. This led him to explore what he called a “pluralist” approach to interreligious dialogue. Yet in the years since then he has come to define the problem more in terms of “Christian supremacy.” This book is a theological memoir, in which he shows how from his early youth, entry into a Catholic missionary order, studies under Rahner, and subsequent theological career he explored this question—attempting to understand the claims of Christianity in relation to other religious paths. His journey reflects the ongoing development of this question in theology and the Church, and his own spiritual quest, in which these questions were also shaped by the influence of liberation theology and by his own explorations in Buddhism.

Paul Knitter is professor emeritus of Union Theological Seminary; before that he taught at Xavier University for twenty-eight years. For over two decades he served as the series editor of our Faith Meets Faith Series. Many of the themes and developments chronicled in this book are reflected in his many Orbis Books: No Other Name?; One Earth, Many Religions; Introducing Theologies of Religion; Jesus and the Buddha (with Roger Haight); The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (edited with John Hick).  

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