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Pluralism, exclusivism, and the theoretical virtues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2006

KEVIN MEEKER
KEVIN MEEKER
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, HUMB 124, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688
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Abstract

This paper argues that John Hick's commitment to the moral principle of altruism undermines his pluralistic claim that all of the major world religions are equally efficacious from a soteriological perspective. This argument is placed in a context of a discussion evaluating the theoretical virtues of various hypotheses about religious diversity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 193 - 206
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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