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John Hick's Philosophy of World Religions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Peter Byrne
Peter Byrne
Affiliation:
University of London King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
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Extract

The most important intellectual problems facing modern Christianity stem from our awareness that Christianity is but one religion alongside many. John Hick's philosophy of world religions deserves attention because amongst English theologians he has been one of those most concerned to give a systematic answer to these problems.

Type
Research Article
Information
Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , August 1982 , pp. 289 - 301
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1982

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References

1 For Hick's, use of this argument see: Cod and the Universe of Faiths (London: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 122–123Google Scholar; God Has Many Names (London: SCM Press, 1979), pp. 4–5Google Scholar; The Myth of God Incarnate (London: SCM Press, 1977), p. 180.Google Scholar

2 See God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 140, God Has Many Names, p. 6

3 Hick, , ‘Towards a Philosophy of Religious pluralism’. Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie, 22 (1980), pp. 131–149.Google Scholar

4 See God Has Many Names, pp. 52–3.

5 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 141.

6 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 140.

7 See God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 138.

8 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 141.

9 In God and the Universe of Faiths, pp. 165–179; see especially pp. 174 and 179.

10 I am indebted here to Geach's, Peter discussion in ‘On Worshipping the True God’, God and the Soul (London: Routledge, 1969), pp. 100–116.Google Scholar

11 God and the Universe of Faiths, pp. 92–107; see especially pp. 95–7.

12 See The Arguments for the Existence of God (London, Macmillan, 1971), pp. 104–107.Google Scholar

13 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 117. The point is extended to conflicting religions on pp. 132 and 136–7.

14 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 148.

15 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 139.

16 See the opening paragraph of part 4.

17 I am indebted for these points to Humphrey Palmer's, Analogy (London: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 26–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

18 God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 139.

19 See God and the Universe of Faiths, p. 133.

20 See p. 138.