ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the issues that religious diversity raises for religious belief and religious commitment. If the arguments for salvific exclusivism come from scripture, the arguments against it are more general. One problem is that the doctrine seems to cast God in a harsh light. The major response to religious diversity is pluralism. John Hick offers the most important contemporary defense of pluralism. Hick thinks the world is religiously ambiguous. In Alvin Plantinga's vocabulary, the question is whether the process that produces religious belief is reliable. Plantinga replies to a similar criticism by way of a biblical story. King David lusted after Bathsheba, the beautiful wife of Uriah. Plantinga suggests that people who think otherwise have a blind spot and that the rest of us are seeing something they aren't. The Muslim is certainly missing Plantinga's sense of conviction that Jesus is the Son of God.
