<P> Maximal forms of religious pluralism claim that all religions are equally true, or that one religion can be true for some and another for others . Some Christians hold this idea to be logically impossible from the Principle of contradiction . </P> <P> Other Christians have held that there can be truth value and salvific value in other faith traditions . John Macquarrie, described in the Handbook of Anglican Theologians (1998) as "unquestionably Anglicanism's most distinguished systematic theologian in the second half of the twentieth century", wrote that "there should be an end to proselytizing but that equally there should be no syncretism of the kind typified by the Baha'i movement" (p. 2). In discussing 9 founders of major faith traditions (Moses, Zoroaster, Lao - zu, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Krishna, Jesus, and Muhammad), which he called "mediators between the human and the divine", Macquarrie wrote that: </P> <P> I do not deny for a moment that the truth of God has reached others through other channels - indeed, I hope and pray that it has . So while I have a special attachment to one mediator, I have respect for them all . (p. 12) </P> <P> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints also teaches a form of religious pluralism, that there is at least some truth in almost all religions and philosophies . </P>

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