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Do Different Religions Share Moral Common Ground?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Peter Donovan
Peter Donovan
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Massey University
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Do followers of different religions share common ground at the level of their morality, despite their disagreements over doctrine and metaphysical beliefs? A typical statement of this view was made recently by the Dalai Lama.

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Religious Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 3-4 , September 1986 , pp. 367 - 375
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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page 367 note 1 A Human Approach to World Peace, by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Wisdom Publications, 1984), p. 13.

page 368 note 1 Towards a World Theology (Macmillan, 1981), pp. 7–11.

page 368 note 2 ‘Religion, Ethics and Action’, in The Philosophical Frontiers of Christian Theology, edited by Hebblethwaite, Brian and Sutherland, Stewart (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 153–67.Google Scholar

page 368 note 3 Ibid. p. 164.

page 370 note 1 Ibid.

page 370 note 2 Ibid. p. 166.

page 370 note 3 See Smith, W. Cantwell, The Meaning and End of Religion, first published in 1962.Google Scholar On the limitations of the concept ‘religious system’ see Ling, Trevor, ‘Communalism and the Social Structure of Religion’, in Truth and Dialogue, edited by Hick, John (Sheldon Press, 1974).Google Scholar

page 371 note 1 In the contemporary theology of Melanesian, Maori and Pacific Island Christianity, indigenous concepts such as mana and tapu are freely used to help interpret Biblical morality and soteriology. On compatibilities between Hindu and Christian moralities see Christian and Hindu Ethics by Shivesh Thakur (George Allen and Unwin, 1969.

page 371 note 2 For an introduction to the range of inter–religious activities in modern Britain, see appendix to God Has Many Names, by John Hick (Macmillan, 1980).Google Scholar See also Religious Co–operation in the Pacific, edited by Afeaki, Emiliana and others (University of the South Pacific, 1983).Google Scholar

page 372 note 1 ‘Human Rights in Religious Traditions’, in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, XIX, 3 (Summer 1982), p. 86.

page 373 note 1 Ibid. p. 84

page 373 note 2 Ibid. pp. 26–7.

page 374 note 1 Ibid. pp. 11–12.

page 375 note 1 Whether the proposal is capable of being implemented, by whom, for how long, at what cost to other beliefs, and so on, are other matters entirely.