ABSTRACT
Religious plurality is simply a fact. There are religious traditionsthat differ deeply in terms of their doctrines, practices, institutions,scriptures, experiences, and hopes. Our concern is with religious pluralism – RP for short. RP is one interpretation of religious plurality. It comes in several varieties, among which one is in danger of becoming canonical. The nearly canonical version says that all nice religious traditions are “equally valid.” Its longest expression is in Professor John Hick’s 1989 An Interpretation of Religion.1 The expression that makes the strongest effort to answer criticisms is Professor Hick’s 1995 A Christian Theology of Religions.2 We will focus on the 1995 expression, assessing RP as one finds it there.
