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On conflicting religious truth–claims

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Hick
John Hick
Affiliation:
Danforth Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate School, California
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In their article ‘On Grading Religions, Seeking Truth, and Being Nice to People’ (Religious Studies, XIX, 75–80) Paul Griffiths and Delmas Lewis present my view of the relation between the world religions as a ‘nonjudgmental inclusivism’ which, in the interests of harmony and goodwill, denies that the different religions make conflicting truth–claims. Indeed, according to Griffiths and Lewis, I deny that they make any truth–claims at all. Thus ‘since the apparently incompatible truth–claims found in the world's major religious systems are not in fact truth–claims at all, there can be no incompatibility between them’ (p. 76). And so no arguments arise and we can all be nice to each other!

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Religious Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 485 - 491
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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References

page 486 note 1 For more about this, see my article in Hick, John, ed., Truth and Dialogue (London: Sheldon Press, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974)Google Scholar and Death and Eternal Life (London: Collins, New York: Harper & Row, 1976), chaps. 16–19.Google Scholar

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page 488 note 1 For a recent discussion see Goulder, Michael and Hick, John, Why Believe in God? (London: SCM Press, 1983).Google Scholar

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