Titlebook: An Interpretation of Religion; Human Responses to t John Hick Book 1989 John Hick 1989 philosophy of religion.religion.religious belief

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The Pluralistic Hypothesiswere only one religious tradition, so that all religious experience and belief had the same intentional object, an epistemology of religion could come to rest at this point. But in fact there are a number of different such traditions and families of traditions witnessing to many different personal deities and non-personal ultimates.

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The Soteriological Character of Post-Axial Religione theories and in which few generalisations have been able to survive. Nevertheless, two broad interpretive concepts have emerged to very widespread acceptance, and both are important for the argument of this book.

Apoptosis

Salvation/Liberation as Human Transformationriviality and perversity of ordinary human life, affirms an ultimate unity of reality and value in which or in relation to which a limitlessly better quality of existence is possible, and shows the way to realise that radically better possibility. This may be by self-committing faith in Christ as on

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The Cosmic Optimism of Post-Axial Religionan moral weakness and failure or of the pervasive insecurity and liability-to-suffering of all life; the proclamation of a limitlessly better possibility arising from another reality, transcendent to our present selves; and the teaching of a way, whether by ‘own-power’ spiritual discipline or the ‘o