The many-sided reality: A model of models

Abstract

Spiritual truth is found in more than one tradition. Each religion presents a model of Reality based on the apercu or disclosure of Reality available to it. No model is, or can be, complete. Reality is most adequately understood through a plurality of models. But, since models are limited and subject to error, critical pluralism must apply to all religions the methods of spiritual discernment and theological insight currently used only within each tradition. The task of discernment is not only an intellectual exercise. Reality is transformative, but we are not all called to the same way of life. We must each respond to that aspect of Reality most present in our own lives.