ABSTRACT
In God Has Many Names, John Hick describes how, as a law student, he underwent a spiritual conversion in which the whole world of Christian belief and experience came vividly to life. Hick testifies to a spiritual intellectual pilgrimage extending over a period of 15 years. He taught for some years in the United States, before returning to England to teach philosophy of religion, firstly at Cambridge and then at the University of Birmingham. Christian theology, he says, is crying out for critical reflection and further development. Hick offers his own response from two major and closely interrelated perspectives. His proposal for a Copernican revolution in the theology of religion and his radical re-interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the incarnation. The decision to use the term theocentric is based on Hick's own decision to continue to use the word God' as the Christian way of referring to the Ultimate Reality that he identifies in each of the religious traditions.
