Wheeler, David L.  "Universal Concerns and Concrete Commitments: In Response to Anderson."  Process Studies 23, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1994): 192-6.

Abstract

C. Alan Anderson has criticized my description of God's redemptive activity in the world for remaining "so deeply committed to conservative Christianity" that it fails to produce "the most comprehensive understanding of the universally available grace."  I respond that "universally available grace" is most fruitfully experienced through the relationships, rituals and actions of specific faith traditions.  Living traditions constitute and promote concrete, communal expressions of religious intuitions which -- when entertained only vaguely and generically -- lack the power to transform and elicit commitment.  At their most vigorous and focused, these concrete, communal religious expressions (doctrines) have both a norming function within their home communities and an ontological reference to generic human experience.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]