A John Hick Reader

✍ Scribed by Paul Badham (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

John Hick is one of the most widely read and discussed living writers in modern theology and the philosophy of religion. This book offers students a one volume textbook on his thought. Extracts from his writings cover all the various themes for which Hick has become known: Faith and Knowledge, Philosophy of Religion, Evil and the God of Love, Death and Eternal Life, The Myth of God Incarnate, and Problems of Religious Pluralism. The extracts are preceded by an introductory essay by Paul Badham on John Hick's philosophical theology, and on the integrity of his life and thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Philosophical Theology of John Hick....Pages 1-14
Religion as Fact-asserting....Pages 15-33
Religious Faith as Experiencing-as....Pages 34-48
Rational Theistic Belief without Proofs....Pages 49-67
Theology and Verification....Pages 68-87
An Irenaean Theodicy....Pages 88-105
Jesus and the World Religions....Pages 106-125
Eschatological Verification Reconsidered....Pages 126-144
Present and Future Life....Pages 145-160
A Philosophy of Religious Pluralism....Pages 161-177
On Grading Religions....Pages 178-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-200

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Religion; Religious Studies, general