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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
John Hick |
OCLC Number: | 1120131020 |
Description: | xv, 412 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- The soteriological character of post-axial religion -- Salvation/liberation as human transformation -- The cosmic optimism of post-axial religion -- Ontological, cosmological and design arguments -- Morality, religious experience and overall probability -- The naturalistic option -- Natural meaning and experience -- Ethical and aesthetic meaning and experience -- Religious meaning and experience -- Religion and reality -- Contemporary non-realist religion -- The rationality of religious belief -- The pluralistic hypothesis -- The personae of the real -- The impersonae of the real -- Soteriology and ethics -- The ethical criterion -- Myth, mystery and the unanswered questions -- The problem of conflicting truth-claims. |
Series Title: | Gifford lectures, 1986-1987. |
Responsibility: | John Hick. |
Abstract:
Discusses traditional and recent arguments for and against the existence of God, the religious ambiguity of the universe, the question of transcendence and the basis for rational religious belief.
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