ABSTRACT

There is one thing that virtually all of Hick’s partisans and critics alike agree upon: no one has produced a more intellectually sophisticated and provocative apologetic for the pluralist paradigm. A host of related criticisms of Hick’s religious pluralism revolve around the manner in which the religions of the world are treated under Hick’s hypothesis. The soteriological criterion as religious homogenization Hick’s view of religious salvation/liberation has become a magnet for criticism. It has become a common-place among many adherents of the pluralist paradigm that exclusivist theologies of religions are something less than morally exemplary. A number of critics have argued that Hick’s religious interpretation of religion is deeply flawed. As a philosopher of religion, Hick has constructed his pluralist hypothesis as a response to the problematic of religious diversity. Hick’s appeal to a ‘Spirit’ (or ‘Inspiration’) Christology would find growing support in various theological circles today.