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In this section I wish briefly to consider some of the issues, objections, questions, and concerns usually brought against the vision of pluralistic theology I have championed. I understand that for many, what I have suggested will strike them somewhere on the continuum between uncomfortable and preposterous. What, they ask, would motivate the “average” creedal, churchgoing, tradition-respecting Christian to follow such a strange and potentially “dangerous” program? Should we not worry about appropriating an other’s religious form of life? Does countenancing the possible value of an other’s religious tradition negate or weaken one’s own? These and other possible objections might be laid at the door of the erstwhile pluralistic theologian and a proper response to them would necessitate a volume of its own. What I propose to do instead is to particularize and personalize my responses to a few significant issues as an invitation to the conversation I hope this chapter will evince.