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34 ssss1 Rosalind Shaw and Charles Stuart in the introduction to their edited collection, Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis (London: Routledge, 1994), 3–6.

35 ssss1 Of course many Biblical sources could be used here, not least the extended banquet story of Luke 14 and 15.

36 ssss1 Some may aver that I have not considered certain kinds of thorny problems which may arise from pluralistic theology, namely that its practice may require us to endorse and recombine views, practices, and structures from which we are rightfully repelled. This is a difficult question and well beyond the scope of this essay. I have considered it in the context of the “reluctant dialogian,” that is, a person who not only rejects interreligious dialogue but considers us an enemy and means us harm. See “The Dialogue Party: Dialogue, Hybridity and the Reluctant Other,” in Theology and the Religions: A Dialogue, ed. Vigo Mortensen (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Erdmann’s), 235–248.