Titlebook: God And The Universe Of Faiths; Essays In The Philos John Hick Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 198

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Religion as Fact-asserting,ter I want to criticise the opposite view, both in the crude assumption that the important question is not whether religious affirmations are true but whether they are useful; and in the highly sophisticated form of the current neo-Wittgensteinian treatment of religious discourse as an autonomous la

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God, Evil and Mystery,ion that the world’s evil does not rationally require one to renounce belief in God. Nor on the other hand, needless to say, does the fact of evil lead one towards belief in God. The positive grounds of belief are not an inference from the world to God. We cannot argue from ‘the appearances of natur

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The Problem of Evil in the First and Last Things,he fall expresses our sense of distance from the proper fulfilment of the God-given possibilities of our nature; and the myth of the double destiny, made vividly concrete in the polarity of heaven and hell, expresses our sense of the unqualified seriousness of the free choices and responses which ar

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God as Necessary Being,pplied to God and withheld from man, indicates that God and man differ not merely in the characteristics which they possess but, more fundamentally, in their modes of being, or in the fact that they exist in different senses of the word ‘exist’.

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Christ and Incarnation,perience. But before adopting the new picture a Christian must be satisfied that his devotion to Jesus as his personal Lord and Saviour is not thereby brought into question or its validity denied. In this and the following chapter I propose to deal directly with this question of the place of Christ,

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Incarnation and Mythology,ested that in expressing this claim today we might speak of the identity of divine and human activities of loving rather than of an identity of substance. But it is to be noted that this suggestion does not profess to . the assertion that Jesus was God as well as man but only to present it in terms