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Religious pluralism can be understood as a position which assumesa plurality of religions to be true simultaneously, meaning there are at least two distinctive religions that are able to lead their followers to a salvific-end. It is in opposition to the exclusivist position that assumes only one religion to havea soteriological function or the inclusivist position that allows other religions to be soteriologically effective, but at the same time maintains that there is one religion which contains more truths significantly.Before arguing about religious pluralism, however, itisnecessary to clarify which model we are referring to. For instance, some may accusethepluralist position of ignoring historical conflicting truth-claims, yet such accusation is in fact inapplicable to thetheories under the category of 'open religious pluralism'- these theories argue that human can never be certain of the authenticity of a religious truth-claim, let alone the existences of contradictions between them (Yandell, 1993, pp. 193). Different models can have very different understandings for the term 'pluralism', thus the different pluralist assumptions. As Heim believes, although some scholars have chosen to regard themselves as 'pluralists', what they actually propose are quite different from the more common understanding of the position1

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