Contents -- Preface -- 1. PLURALIST IDENTITY CLAIMS: A PRELIMINARY OVERVIEW -- 1. Types of Relationship -- 2. Religions, Realities, Categories -- 2. THE CLAIMS' SIGNIFICANCE -- 1. Parameters of Assessment -- 2. Challenging Perspectives -- 2.1 A secular challenge -- 2.2 A pluralist challenge -- 2.3 An epistemic challenge -- 2.4 A challenge for theism -- 2.5 A challenge specifically for Christianity -- 2.6 An ecumenical challenge -- 3. FIXING A FOCUS -- 1. Relationships -- 2. The Realities Thus Related -- 4. TRANSCENDENT REFERENCE -- 1. Three Pluralist Alternatives -- 1.1 Multiple, non-transcendent reference -- 1.2 Single, entirely transcendent reference -- 1.3 Transcendent, perspectival reference -- 2. A Balanced Argument -- 3. Assessment of the Alternatives -- 5. FOR AND AGAINST IDENTICAL REFERENCE -- 1. Motives -- 2. Arguments -- 2.1 For identity -- 2.2 Against identity -- 2.3 Synthesis? -- 6. NEGLECTED QUESTIONS -- 1. The Individuation Question -- 2. Reasons for Pluralists' Silence -- 2.1 Linguistic inattentiveness -- 2.2 The opacity of language -- 2.3 The veil of history -- 2.4 The ambiguity of "language" -- 2.5 A well-hidden distinction -- 2.6 Identity versus individuation -- 3. The Identity Question -- 7. MULTIPLE MISGIVINGS -- 1. Troubling Associations -- 1.1 Linguistic focus -- 1.2 The demand for precision -- 1.3 The demand for verifiability -- 1.4 A spatial requirement -- 1.5 The apophatic tradition -- 2. Troubling Implications -- 8. COUNTER-EXPLORATION -- 1. Possible Remedies -- 2. Possible Objections -- 9. DIALECTICAL RESPONSE -- 1. Descriptive Convergence Revisited -- 2. The Way of Comparisons -- 3. Pluralist Comparisons -- 10. PLURALISM IN A NEW KEY? -- 1. Comparisons versus Claims -- 2. Significance -- 3. Challenges -- 4. Focus -- 5. Reference -- 6. Motives -- 7. Arguments -- 8. A Closing Comparison -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B.

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