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This book asks the question “what is religion?” from a theological perspective. In an age in which religion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that we should take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critique theologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion was central to the theological...

With regard to revelational exclusivism, the situation is even more complex. Revelation for Barth can never be separated from the one event of Jesus Christ, which means that theological pluralism must necessarily be rejected as there can be no sources of revelation outside of Him. Therefore, an exclusivity exists in the words of scripture and (at least in the early volumes of Church Dogmatics) in the proclamation of the church, as they attest to the one revelation of God in Jesus Christ.66 However,
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