The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity

Quinn, Philip L. and Kevin Meeker, Eds. / Contributors: David Hume, William Lane Craig, John Hick, Sumner B. Twiss, Ninian Smart, Keith Ward, Paul R. Eddy, George I. Mavrodes, David Basinger, Alvin Plantinga, William P. Alston, J.L. Schellenberg, William J. Wainwright, Philip L. Quinn

ISBN 10: 0195121554 / ISBN 13: 9780195121551

Published by Oxford University Press, New York Oxford, 2000

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243 pp. '1' in number line. Glossy dark blue and light blue wrappers with title lettering in large white letters across most of front cover, over dark blue with light blue box at bottom front cover for editor names in dark blue, superimposed. Following the Introduction by the Editors, fourteen essays by Contributors cited. (NO previous owner names. NO remainder marks.) Unread. FLAWLESS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York Oxford
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195121554
• ISBN 13: 9780195121551
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume collects some of the best recent work on the philosophical challenge of religious diversity to religion and religious belief. The contributors represent the disciplines of philosophy, religious studies, and theology. The collection is unified by the way in which many of the authors engage in sustained critical examination of one another's positions. One focal point of the discussion is John Hick's pluralism according to which all the major religious traditions make contact with the same Ultimate Reality, encountering it through a variety of culturally shaped forms of thought and experience, and all of them offer apparently equally effective paths to salvation or liberation. Another focal point is William P. Alston's defence of the rationality of engaging in the Christian practice of forming beliefs about manifestations of God in response to experiences the subjects take to be perceptions of divine presence or activity. Articles by Hick and Alston develop their views, and other articles respond to them. The responses include both criticism and defence of various aspects of Hick's and Alston's positions. Positions such as religious skepticism, religious exclusivism, and religious inclusivism are also represented in the collection. In the introduction, the editors suggest connections among the articles and report on further back and forth exchanges amongs the authors of the articles.

Review

"A timely treatment of issues that loom large in our culture."--William J. Kinnaman, Professor Emeritus, Community College of Rhode Island