John Hick

John Harwood Hick ( born January 20, 1922 in Scarborough / Yorkshire; † February 9, 2012 in Birmingham ) was a British theologian and philosopher of religion. He was a representative of the so-called pluralist theology of religion - that is, the thesis that different religions can be true and means of salvation.

Life

1953 ordained Presbyterian minister, he was a professor at several universities in England and the United States. Until his retirement in 1993 Hick taught Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont Graduate School in California.

Work

After Hick is at the center of all legitimately so-called religions a transcendent being which he calls " the Real ," which - in full, absolutely - Real. This come in every historical religion only inappropriate for language and appearance, which explains the diversity of religious traditions. The different human formulations about "the real " take loans from culture-specific and individual needs, whether to refer to these and stood, properly understood, is often not in the ratio of a logical contradiction, so that at most one of the conflicting allegations could be true. Whatever the truth of sentences is religion theologically decisive, but the practical function to mediate salvation. This function may exert different religious beliefs and rites in the same high level.

In his work " religion. The human responses to the question of life and death " (1989, German 1996) he prepared to also diverse religion known Handsome material and represents similar theories such as Gustav Mensching.

Publications

  • Faith and Knowledge, 1957
  • Philosophy of Religion, 1963
  • Arguments for the Existence of God, 1970
  • God and the Universe of Faiths, 1973
  • God Has Many Names, 1980
  • An Interpretation of Religion, 1984
  • The Rainbow of Faiths, 1995
  • John Hick: An Autobiography, 2003
  • The Fifth Dimension: An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm, 2004
  • The New Frontier of Religion and Science, November 2006

Secondary literature

  • Reinhold Bernhardt: The absoluteness of Christianity. From the Enlightenment to the pluralistic theology of religions, Gütersloh 1990, pp. 199-225.
  • Gerhard Gade: Many religions - a word from God. Objection to John Hicks pluralistic theology of religions, Gütersloh 1998.
  • Lucas Graßal: How Religion (s) teach? Religious Education in German religious education concepts in the light of pluralistic theology of religions by John Hick, Berlin: EB -Verlag 2013 ( Contributions to the Educational Cultural Encounter 30).
  • Christian Heller: John Hicks project of a religious interpretation of religion. Discussion and Analysis - Interpretation - reception. Münster 2001 ( Religion - History - Society 28).
  • Reinhard Kirste: Theological approaches of religious pluralism, I, in: Yearbook for Interreligious Encounter (JIB 1 ), pp. 303-317.
  • Werner New: Healing in all world religions? The understanding of revelation and salvation in a pluralistic theology of religions John Hicks, Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7655-1755-6 Brunnen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86540-074-1 free mouth -Verlag.

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