Saying what we mean: Methodological reflections on Dale Cannon's Six Ways of Being Religious

Matthew R. Foster (Presbyterian church [U.S.A.]) has been an assistant professor in the Theological and Religious Studies Dept. of Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY, since 1992. He was a part-time lecturer (1987-88) in the Religious Studies and Philosophy Depts. of John Carroll University, Cleveland Heights, OH; and previously an instructor at Lakeland Community College, Mentor, OH; DePaul University, Chicago; and the University of Chicago's Continuing Education Program. He attended high school at the American School in Japan, Tokyo, and holds a B.A. from Earlham College, Richmond, IN, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. (1987) in the Ethics and Society Field from the University of Chicago Divinity School. His Gadamer and Practical Philosophy: The Hermeneutics of Moral Confidence was published by Scholars Press ([distributed by Oxford University Press) in 1991. He has lectured at the Third International Buddhist-Christian Dialogue Conference (Boston, 1992) and (with Dr. Robert Reber) at the Parliament of the World's R eligions in Cape Town in 1999 on the Long Island Multi-Faith Forum and its Building Bridges Program, for which he served as Coordinator (1999-2000). He is a member of the Long Island Multi-Faith Forum, of the Advisory Board of the Center for Christian-Jewish Studies at Molloy College, and of the Council on Education of Long Island Presbytery. He serves as an Elder and Mission Committee Chair of First Presbyterian Church, Freeport, NY.
PRECIS Dale Cannon's Six Ways of Being Religious offers a typology by which to make sense of the world's religious diversity and to facilitate interreligious dialogue. Despite some promising Innovations, [...]