A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspects such as interreligious spirituality and worship in a multi-faith context.

A fascinating collection of essays by leading scholars in the field engage with the idea of religious pluralism mooted by John Hick to offer incisive insights on religious pluralism and related themes and to address practical aspects such as interreligious spirituality and worship in a multi-faith context.

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Religious Pluralism: Some Issues; S.Sugirtharajah PART I: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Religious Pluralism and the Need for an Interreligious Theology; P.Schmidt-Leukel Which is it? Religious Pluralism or Global Theology?; M.McCord Adams Virtuous Comparativists are Practicing Pluralists; P.Knitter Pluralism Revisited; K.Ward Faith Triumphant? The Problem of a Theology of Supersession; J.Lipner PART II: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND PRACTICAL CONCERNS The Value of the Symbolic Jesus for Christian Involvement in Interfaith Dialogue; A.Race Interreligious Prayer between Christians and Muslims; G.D'Costa Interfaith Spirituality or Interspirituality? A New Phenomenon in a Postmodern World; U.King The Mahatma and the Philosopher: Mohandas Gandhi and John Hick and their Search for Truth; S.Sugirtharajah PART III: THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ORIENTATIONS John Hick: Theologian or Philosopher of Religion?; C.Gillis Humane Spirit - Towards a Liberal theology of Resistance and Respect; G.Newlands Mediating Relativism and Absolutism in Tillich's and Hick's Theories of Religious Truth; M.A.Stenger John Hick's Pan(en)theistic Monism; Y.Nagasawa Faith, Evidence, and Evidentialism; S.T.Davis Keeping Hick from Hell: Answering the Isolationist Objection to Hick's Universalism; T.Musgrove Suffering as Transformative: Some Reflections on Depression and Free Will; A.P.Scrutton PART IV: JOHN HICK'S WRITINGS AND THEIR IMPACT The Revival of Philosophy of Religion and the contribution of John Hick to this; P.Badham John Hick and Chinese Religious Studies; Z.Wang John Hick's Religious Interpretation of Religion: An Unexplored Resource for Religious Educators; G.Teece Index