Christianity alone claims exclusive universal salvation, making religious pluralism its greatest threat.

Evidence

Because of Jesus Christ, Christianity understands itself as the absolute religion, intended for all men, which cannot recognize any other religion beside itself as of equal right … Thus the pluralism of religions in the world is a greater threat and a reason for greater unrest for Christianity than for any other religion. For no other religion – not even Islam – maintains so absolutely that it is the religion, the one and only valid revelation of the one living God as does the Christian religion. The fact of the pluralism of religions, which endures and still from time to time becomes virulent and even after a history of 2000 years, must therefore be the greatest scandal and the greatest vexation for Christianity. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 750

Categorization

• XREF: Rahner’s absolute-religion claim connects to the exclusive-uniqueness dogmatic logic also discussed in the book’s treatment of Christian soteriology and Interreligious dialogue literature (Eboussi Boulaga, Dupuis, Panikkar).