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On Grading Religions, Seeking Truth, and Being Nice to People – A Reply to Professor Hick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Paul Griffiths  and
Delmas Lewis
Paul Griffiths
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Delmas Lewis
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Professor Hick's recent contribution to Religious Studies, ‘On Grading Religions’, is, like all his work, lucidly written and full of philosophical meat. A complete discussion of his paper in the light of his earlier work would require a lengthy study for which there is no space here; the intention of this short reply to Professor Hick is different. We feel that the view expressed in this and other works of Professor Hick's is in danger of becoming the conventional wisdom about the functions of reason in assessing religious truth-claims among philosophers of religion on both sides of the Atlantic, and that this should not be permitted to happen without some wider ventilation of the extremely important philosophical issues at stake. This reply is thus an attempt to stimulate controversy and to explore alternatives.

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Religious Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 75 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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page 75 note 1 ‘On Grading Religions’, Religious Studies XVII, 451–67.Google Scholar

page 75 note 2 Op. cit., p. 461.Google Scholar

page 76 note 1 As in fact he does in ‘“Whatever Men Choose is Mine”‘ in Hick, John and Hebblethwaite, Brian (eds), Christianity and Other Religions (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981), pp. 171–90.Google Scholar

page 77 note 1 ‘On Grading Religions’, pp. 451–2.Google Scholar

page 80 note 1 A good start can be found in Keith Yandell, ‘Religious Experience and Rational Appraisal’, Religious Studies X, 173–87.Google Scholar