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Cooking with Philip Quinn

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In response to various difficulties that confront John Hick’s pluralistic hypothesis, Philip Quinn proposes a recipe for developing “more satisfactory” pluralistic hypotheses. In this short exploratory paper I examine Quinn’s proposal, identify some problems that it faces, and consider some alternatives.

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  1. Department of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 South Mathews, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Robert McKim

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McKim, R. Cooking with Philip Quinn. Int J Philos Relig 71, 239–245 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-010-9276-z

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