Watch this brief video clip by a Christian theologian of religious diversity and then reflect on the related quote below from C.K. Chesteron. Identify the position on religious diversity reflected in the video and quote. Are they the same? What evidence to they site for the Christian notion of the “uniqueness” or “supremacy” of Christ? These are brief excerpts, but from what you are provided here, identify if anything is missing in their case. What more would they have to say to adequately make their case?

Write ONE brief response paper on this material addressing the topics above (not a separate paper for the video and the quote- but one paper on both of these together).The paper is to be no longer than 2 double spaced typed pages in word format and uploaded to the dropbox. Be sure to state your position clearly in the opening paragraph and then carefully organize the rest of the paper to support your position. Draw your argument together is clear, well supported conclusion paragraph.

Video Clip: Harold Netland- What Makes Christianity Unique

G.K. Chesteron’s comment about Christian claims about Christ in contrast to alternative views of divine and religious founders throughout history:

“Right in the middle of all these things stands up an enormous exception. It is quite unlike anything else. It is a thing final like the trump of doom, though it is also a piece of good news; or news that seems too good to be true. It is nothing less than the loud assertion that this mysterious maker of the world has visited his world in person. It declares that really and even recently, or right in the middle of historic times, there did walk into the world this original invisible being; about whom the thinkers make theories and the mythologists hand down myths; the Man Who Made the World. That such a higher personality exists behind all things had indeed always been implied by all the best thinkers, as well as by all the most beautiful legends. But nothing of this sort had ever been implied in any of them. It is simply false to say that the other sages and heroes had claimed to be that mysterious master and maker, of whom the world had dreamed and disputed. Not one of them had ever claimed to be anything of the sort. Not one of their sects or schools had ever claimed that they had claimed to be anything of the sort. The most that any religious prophet had said was that he was the true servant of such a being. The most that any visionary had ever said was that men might catch glimpses of the glory of that spiritual being; or much more often of lesser spiritual beings. The most that any primitive myth had ever suggested was that the Creator was present at the Creation. But that the Creator was present at scenes a little subsequent to the supper-parties of Horace, and talked with tax-collectors and government officials in the detailed daily life of the Roman Empire, and that this fact continued to be firmly asserted by the whole of that great civilisation for more than a thousand years that is something utterly unlike anything else in nature. It is the one great startling statement that man has made since he spoke his first articulate word, instead of barking like a dog. Its unique character can be used as an argument against it as well as for it. It would be easy to concentrate on it as a case of isolated insanity; but it makes nothing but dust and nonsense of comparative religion.” – G.K. Chesteron (1925). The Everlasting Man.