The Place of the 'Religious Outsider' in the Kingdom of God: A Biblical Response to Relations with Other Faiths

ukan society. This biblical reading is then applied particularly to the Australian interreligious context, offering new possibilities for Christian engagement with the religious other'. It notes that establishing a uniquely Australian' context is difficult and suggests that the thesis will also have some applicability beyond the Australian context in other multiethnic, multireligious contexts. It suggests how Christianity can dialogue, relate and coexist with, and seek to understand, the religious other' in the wider world, and how the reading, or re-reading, of sacred text might contribute to this dialogue.