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. Witness the fact of how few general critiques of the pluralist paradigm leave Hick out of their discussion. It is safe to say that no other pluralist proponent in the western world today is as often cited and critiqued as Hick. Thus, it is widely recognized that if one is going to challenge the pluralist interpretation of religious diversity in general, Hick's model must be reckoned with. Given this fact, it is not surprising to find that the criticisms of Hick's pluralist religious interpretation of religion are many and varied. These criticisms can be categorized under three general rubrics: (1) Is it pluralistic? (2) Is it Christian? (3) Does it work? 1
