Radical Immanence
I absolutely love what David Bentley Hart writes. Even though the dictionary is not far away when I'm reading, I still understand the thrust of the arguments.
I recently read one of his books, named "The Experience of God". It's sort of aimed at clarifying the classical theist position, he makes great pains to distinguish this from what he called "monopolytheism" which he ascribes to some current Christian Apologists. He uses three terms along with their Sanskrit translations to explain His position: Being (Sat), Consciousness (Chit) and Bliss (Ananda), abbreviated as Satchitananda. This post is not to explain his argument however, but to take one of the running themes of the book to show a beautiful picture of the one we call God, one which easily fits into the picture of Christ as the only way to the Father, and how this still holds not just in the incarnation, but in any conception of or encounter with the fullness of existence we call God, whether we know it or not. Here's how it goes.
If Christ, the logos, is the "way" God relates with creation, as confessed by Christians, most fully in His incarnation as Jesus of Nazareth, then it follows that any *true* revelation of God is necessarily a revelation of Jesus Christ, His Logos.
Let's say by some extraordinairy circumstance a person or community has never heard the gospel as preached by the Church. Any mystical encounter or revelation of the existence of the fullness of being, whom we call God, that happens to the person or community is necessarily an encounter with His Logos, the incarnate one, the Eternal Tao (in the words of Hieromonk Damascene).
For example, an encounter either through beauty or rationality (which ultimately are one thing) is an encounter of a conscious being, who is not conscious of his own doing, but participates in the very infinite rational and beautiful consciousness he discovers. In "seeing" or "glimpsing" the ultimate reality in the very contingent object, He glimpses the radical immanence of this ultimate reality, the Logos, which in itself is a glimpse of the incarnation that reveals this ultimate reality in the radical immanence displayed in the Logos taking on flesh.
This, if true, would have a great role in the dialogue between Christians and other religious traditions, and it is very interesting to see where we can take this.