During the last few years several criticisms concerning the possibility of an authentic interreligious dialogue within the traditional doctrine of the Church have emerged under the title of a Pluralistic Theology of Religions. The present paper tries to show how many of the problems pointed at by the pluralistic theologians, as for instance John Hick, can be solved by Ramon Llull 's concept of apologetics without abandoning the universal truth-claims that characterize each religion. To this

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... first the actual criticisms concerning the interreligious dialogue will be analized, secondly the most distinctive features of the lullian approach will be presented, i.e. doubt and philosophy, and finally a Philosophy of Religions inspired by Llull and current theology will be proposed.