A Critical Study On Mark Heim's Theory Of Religious Pluralism

Mark Heim is one of the important postmodern philosophers and theologians in the field of Religious Pluralism, who proposes a Radical Religious Pluralism. In view of Heim's hypothesis, traditional Pluralism is failed not only in their content and grammar but also for the Classical Typology of Theology of Religions. Heim argues that disputing on different ways of salvation is not the right promise of a real pluralism, rather recognizing the possibility and truthfulness of different religions ends are what a pluralist should concern. The foundation of Radical Pluralism is on the Complexity of Godhead. The Trinitarian God is ontologically related in three dimensions: Impersonal Dimension, Iconic Dimension and Communal Dimension, which offer different ways related with diverse religious.In this thesis, I perform a critical research on Heim's hypothesis, and argue that Heim's Radical Pluralism is failed with serious problems and by no means better than traditional Pluralism, at the same time, the triune God could not be a foundation for his Radical Pluralism.