TY - BOOK AU - Hick,John TI - An interpretation of religion: human responses to the transcendent SN - 9781403944450 (pbk.) : AV - BL48 .H45 2004 U1 - 200 PY - 2004/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Religions KW - ukslc KW - Philosophy of religion KW - thema KW - Social & political philosophy N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -