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Exclusivism versus pluralism in religion: a response to Kevin Meeker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2006

JOHN HICK
Affiliation:
144 Oak Tree Lane, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6HU

Abstract

I argue that Meeker is mistaken in two crucial respects. First, contrary to both myself and Plantinga, he treats exclusivism as a theory about the relation between the religions, and then claims that it is superior to the pluralist theory. But he does not say what his exclusivist theory is. Second, he bases his claim of a fundamental self-contradiction in my pluralist position on a view which I disavow, namely that altruism is the core of religion. He omits the central idea of a profound reorientation in response to the Real, of which altruism is a manifestation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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