Professor Hick on Religious Pluralism

Religious Studies 22 (2):249 - 261 (1986)
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Abstract

The major religious traditions clearly seem to be making very different claims about the nature of the religious ultimate and our relation to this ultimate. For example, orthodox Christians believe in an infinite creator God who has revealed himself definitively in the Incarnation in Jesus. But while affirming that there is one God who is creator and judge, devout Muslims reject as blasphemous any suggestion thatJesus was God incarnate. Theravada Buddhists, on the other hand, do not regard the religious ultimate as an ontologically distinct creator at all. And even within, say, the Buddhist family of traditions sharp differences emerge: followers of Jodo-Shinshu Buddhism maintain that salvation/enlightenment is attainable simply through exercising faith in the Amida Buddha and the recitation of the nembutsu , whereas Zen monks reject as illusory any worldview which implies dualism and hold that enlightenment or satori is to be attained only through rigorous self-discipline

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Why Believe in God.Michael Goulder & John Hick - 1984 - Religious Studies 20 (4):695-696.

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