Religious Pluralism and the Modern World: An Ongoing Engagement with John Hick

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Religious Pluralism — Some Issues....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Religious Pluralism and the Need for an Interreligious Theology....Pages 19-33
Which Is It? Religious Pluralism or Global Theology?....Pages 34-45
Virtuous Comparativists Are Practicing Pluralists....Pages 46-57
Pluralism Revisited....Pages 58-67
Faith Triumphant? The Problem of a Theology of Supersession....Pages 68-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Value of the Symbolic Jesus for Christian Involvement in Interfaith Dialogue....Pages 83-94
Interreligious Prayer between Christians and Muslims....Pages 95-106
Interfaith Spirituality or Interspirituality? A New Phenomenon in a Postmodern World....Pages 107-120
The Mahatma and the Philosopher: Mohandas Gandhi and John Hick and Their Search for Truth....Pages 121-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
John Hick: Theologian or Philosopher of Religion?....Pages 137-151
Humane Spirit: Towards a Liberal Theology of Resistance and Respect....Pages 152-163
Mediating Relativism and Absolutism in Tillich’s and Hick’s Theories of Religious Truth....Pages 164-175
John Hick’s Pan(en)theistic Monism....Pages 176-189
Faith, Evidence, and Evidentialism....Pages 190-203
Keeping Hick from Hell: Answering the Isolationist Objection to Hick’s Universalism....Pages 204-214
Suffering As Transformative: Some Reflections on Depression and Free Will....Pages 215-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
The Revival of Philosophy of Religion and the Contribution of John Hick to This....Pages 229-240
John Hick and Chinese Religious Studies....Pages 241-252
John Hick’s Religious Interpretation of Religion: An Unexplored Resource for Religious Educators....Pages 253-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-269