By Tan Kang San
(This article originally published in The Whole Gospel, The Whole Church, The Whole World: A three year project of The Lausanne Theology Working Group, volume 3 [UK: Paternoster in collaboration with The World Evangelical Alliance Theological Commission, 2010], and reproduced at Lausanne website.)
I. Perspectives on Non-Christian Religions
This paper seeks to explore the notion of multi-religious belonging and evaluate whether it is theologically possible for a Christian to follow Christ while retaining some form of identification with one’s previous religion such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or Chinese religions. Instead of a total rejection of past faiths, is it possible for a Christian, without falling into syncretism, to belong to more than one religious tradition?
