An interpretation of religion : human responses to the transcendent / John Hick.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 448 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781403944450 (pbk.) :
- 9781403944450 (paperback)
- 200
- BL48 .H45 2004
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Previous ed.: New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references.
1.Introduction -- Part one.Phenomenological -- 2.The soteriological character of post-axial religion -- 3.Salvation/liberation as human transformation -- 4.The cosmic optimistic of post-axial religion -- Part two.The religious ambiguity of the universe -- 5.Ontological, cosmological and design arguments -- 6.Morality, religious experience and overall probability -- 7.The naturalistic option -- Part three.Epistemological -- 8.Natural meaning and experience -- 9.Ethical and aesthetic meaning and experience -- 10.Religious meaning and experience -- 11.Religion and reality -- 12.Contemporary non-realist religion -- 13.The rationality of religious belief -- Part four. Religious pluralism -- 14.The pluralistic hypothesis -- 15.The Personae of the real -- 16.The impersonae of the real -- Part five. Criteriolgical -- 17.Soteriology and ethics -- 18.The ethical criterion -- 19.Myth, mystery and the unanswered questions -- 20.The problem of conflicting truth-claims -- Epilogue: the future.
Based on the author's Gifford Lectures, this volume treats the principle topics in the philosophy of religion, offering both a basis for religious affirmation & a framework for developing inter-faith dialogue. This new edition includes a response to critical issues raised since 1989.