ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses pluralism as John Hick has developed it. Hick's formulation is the most carefully thought out and developed form of pluralism, but there are other forms, such as Keith Ward's. Exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism come from serious thinkers within some religious tradition, but not all answers to the question of how to understand religious plurality come from within religion. There is more than one way to try to understand the undeniable fact that there is a plurality of religions in the world. Succinctly put, the mutual-opposition view holds that religious plurality shows that no religion is right, or at least that there is no reason to accept one religion over any other. Religious plurality for many has in this way come to be something in their own experience, not just something they read about. Pluralism, like exclusivism and inclusivism, is a view about religious plurality and the relationship between different religions.
