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If anyone who, in making an authentic fundamental decision, is eo ipso open to strictly ultimate reality in its meaning for us is also open to and already implicitly affirms anyone who, or anything that, re-presents this meaning-if this is so, then, presumuably, anyone who understands her-or himself authentically is not only implicitly a Christian, but also implicitly a Buddhist or a Hindu, or anything else that itself re-presents substantially the same meaning and is religiously significant precisely because or insofar as it does so. Thus, if I as a Christian believe, and must believe, that anyone who understands her- or himself authentically is implicitly a Christian, this need not preclude my allowing that anyone, including myself, may at the same time also be implicitly a Buddhist or a Hindu, or anything else that expresses substantially the same truth -- the same self-understanding/understanding of existence -- that Christians hold to be decisively re-presented through Christianity.

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