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An interpretation of religion : human responses to the transcendent

John Hick (Author)
Discusses traditional and recent arguments for and against the existence of God, the religious ambiguity of the universe, the question of transcendence and the basis for rational religious belief
Print Book, English, 1992
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1992
Gifford lectures, 1986-1987
xv, 412 pages ; 23 cm
1120131020
Introduction
The soteriological character of post-axial religion
Salvation/liberation as human transformation
The cosmic optimism of post-axial religion
Ontological, cosmological and design arguments
Morality, religious experience and overall probability
The naturalistic option
Natural meaning and experience
Ethical and aesthetic meaning and experience
Religious meaning and experience
Religion and reality
Contemporary non-realist religion
The rationality of religious belief
The pluralistic hypothesis
The personae of the real
The impersonae of the real
Soteriology and ethics
The ethical criterion
Myth, mystery and the unanswered questions
The problem of conflicting truth-claims