equal access to “the Real”—whatever God may be behind the many masks and faces of the gods.7 Of course, proponents of religious pluralism (in the sense described above) and of Christ’s atonement as merely a moral example for humanity to follow do not explicitly deny the reality of Christ’s saving work on behalf of humanity. They limit and qualify it in such a way as to reduce it to something quite different from what it always has been in Christian belief. These views of Christ’s saving work may