Problems of religious pluralism: A zen critique of John Hick's ontological monomorphism
Philosophy East and West 48 (3):453-477 (1998)
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John Hick's "pluralistic hypothesis" of religion essays a comprehensive vision of religious diversity and its attendant soteriological, epistemological, and ontological implications. At the heart of Hick's proposal is the belief in the transcendental unity and soteriological identity of all religions. While coherent and compelling, Hick's model militates against those traditions that do not possess an ultimate noumenal referent that undergirds the phenomenal responses of culturally conditioned traditions. One of those traditions, namely Sōtō Zen Buddhism, at once defies Hick's categories and presses for an alternative understanding of the epistemological, metaphysical, and soteriological issuesAuthor's Profile
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