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31 ssss1 Some readers may feel I am ducking the really significant philosophical issue. A thorough discussion and defense of a pragmatic approach to religious truth is, of course, far beyond the scope of this paper. However I suggest that the worry about getting at the Truth of religion is, to my mind, a holdover of an anachronistic epistemology as well as theologically unsustainable. The latter due to the commitment to divine transcendence at the heart of Semitic religion (which I discussed above) and the former the result of having ceded the rules of engagement while in the process of defending against the (now dubious) claims of nineteenth-century and twentieth-century positivism and scientism.

32 ssss1 Hendrik Vroom, “Syncretism and Dialogue: A Philosophical Analysis,” in Dialogue and Syncretism: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. J.D. Gort, H. Vroom, R. Fernhout, and A. Wessels (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989), 26.

33 ssss1 Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Routledge, 1966), 45.