John Hick and Pluralism

The purpose of the Christian worldview is to guide one how God wanted us to live our lives. It starts from the very beginning of creation to the world we currently live in today. Christians have faith in Christ. Christians truth about God is believed to be “First, God created the world good indeed, the creation, especially man who is its crown, actually manifests God’s goodness and that all creation is fallen through original sin” (Echeyerria, 2007). This is what makes prophecy an integral part of Christianity.

Religion is a universal term that is widely used for a human’s belief system. The views on how religions compare to one another can be defined differently. One view explains religions using a united belief system by their common goals. Another view explains that different religions are just a shared essence and have vast differences between their specific traditions and customs. This shared essence, but vastly different theory, is explained by Stephen Prothero, using the term “pretend pluralism”. There are many major and minor religions that have guided people in their morals and beliefs. Religions, such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. All five of these current, major religions have vast differences, but may have common goals in their morals, traditions, etc. Two of the most practiced religions, of these five, are Christianity and Islam. These two religions are constantly at battle with one another, but what many people don’t see is that there are just as many similarities between these two religions as there are differences. Through this paper we will discover the underlying similarities and differences between these two religions and, hopefully, conclude that supports either the common goal theory or the “pretend pluralism” theory.

Christianity is one of the dominant religions on the planet, and Christian Theism has played a major role in shaping the development of Western culture. Thanks to the pioneering efforts of Christian missionaries, Christian doctrine has even influenced the views of non-Christians. Nevertheless, the contemporary world is a pluralistic and diverse one, and postmodern perspectives have arisen to challenge the wide-ranging influence of Christian Theism. The purpose of this paper is to show how a belief in Christian Theism can help one understand the nature and meaning of life, and this paper will show evidence that this belief brings both uniformity and order to everything.

John Locke was born on August 29, 1632 in Wrington, England. During this time the Puritan migration to New England was occurring. Locke was born into a Puritan family, but he was able to receive a good education. A good education was difficult to get during this time unless you were of a higher social class, but luckily for Locke his father has connections to the English government. The first school he attended was Westminster school in 1647 then continued his schooling at Christ Church, University of Oxford (1652). While at Christ Church he studied medicine and graduated in 1656. Locke’s extensive schooling led to him being elected to the Royal Society in 1668. Locke graduated with a bachelors in medicine in 1674, he then moved to London to be Lord Ashley’s (Lord of Shaftsbury) personal physician. Gradually Lord Ashley became a more important figure in the society, Locke’s responsibilities grew too. Locke began to get involved with political and business matters, when Lord

Nowadays, racism, politics, and prejudices are the cause of boycotting, riots, and injured people lately, but racism is not the issue. We are constantly surrounded by several different types of race, skin color, and culture. Today, people do not pay attention if a person is different because we are all equal, but with different background and we are worth the same. We have all spoken to a person with a different heritage and shared several different priceless moment with at least of person who is different. Cultural pluralism is the best hope for a just and cohesive society.

He was born on October 30, 1935. He was born in Braintree, that is now Quincy, Massachusetts. At age 16 John had received a scholarship to the school where he got his education called, Harvard University. This is where he received his undergraduate degree and his masters. At age 20, John studied law in the office of John Putnam’s, a prominent lawyer. Despite of his father’s wish for John to enter into the ministry.

However, Dianne draws two different point of views in two groups or how she called it two camps. The first camp suggests that there is only one true religion, and it is unified in nature: religious, scientific, and historical truths, and those tell us about how things actually are. The second stands for you can believe in whatever you want as well as me, and everything will be ok while we do not discuss over it. In addition to that, Oliver affirms that these two camps do not hold the complexity presented by truth-claims. Also, she uses a metaphor of a telescope by P. Knitter, a noted religion scholar to facilitate us understand the issues surrounding religious truth, which are good and bad news; good news is that we see through the telescope, and bad ones is that we cannot see everything through that, in other words truth claims always manifest different point of views of people. The author in the chapter posted on Blackboard refers that generally truth-claims are associated with the beliefs of a religious

John Adams was born October 30, 1735, in Massachusetts. He was the son of John Adams Sr. who was a farmer and served as the deacon at his church. Adams was a very intelligent man and was offered a scholarship to Harvard University when he was only 16. He decided to go to Harvard although his father wanted him to stay in Massachusetts and enter the ministry. He studied law at Harvard in the office of James Putnam. Later in 1758 he earned his masters degree in law.

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Using proven facts and methodologies, the author supports her argument that various faiths can coexist outside of a singular perspective. Ward acknowledges every faith has defining guidelines followers must embrace, but maintains the

His father was a very prestigious person, john Hinckley sr., who was the president of world vision united states and also a chairman and president of the Vanderbilt energy corporation. John Hinckley had two older siblings who were educated to the higher level. Both of them graduated from prestigious colleges, one being Vanderbilt University and the other from southern Methodist University in Dallas. Hinckley grew up like a normal kid, playing all the sports, going to a regular high school in Texas and was also elected class president twice. After john Hinckley graduated high school in 1973 they moved to evergreen Colorado, where the fathers new oil company was located. John Hinckley wanted to pursue a career in songwriting so he left his parents and went to Los Angeles California in hopes of being successful with that particular career. His attempts were ultimately unsuccessful and he began to plummet into a stage of denial and misfortune. This misfortune included him asking his parents for money and also made up a fake girlfriend in attempts to reconcile is own rejected attempts at the new life he wanted to live. After all of this Hinckley started acting in a peculiar manner by purchasing weapons and beginning to practice with them. Through all of this misfortune and rejection he also started taking anti-depressants and

John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, into a middle class family during late Renaissance England. Locke started his studies at Christ Church in Oxford. He then went into medical studies and received a medical license, which he practiced under Anthony Cooper. They became friends, and when Cooper became Earl of Shaftesbury, Locke was able to hold minor government jobs and became involved in politics. Shaftesbury steered Locke towards the views of a government whose law was fair to all, and all were under the law.

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Smith, and Paul Knitter are in direct opposition to each other. Nash affirms that if two truths, which are diametrically opposed to one another, cannot still both be true. This would violate one of the primary laws of logic being the law of non-contradiction. Hick argues that truth can be relative and subjective to the person believing in the truth. In a sense, two truths that are opposite to each other can still be true despite their undeniable contradiction to each other. Conversely, Nash states “truth is a property of some propositions.” Therefore, pluralists have attempted to redefine truth with something other than propositions. However, Nash rebuttals this ideal held by pluralist revealing the usages of truth has to have a basis in property. Truth is not merely a difference in opinion as Smith attempts to define it. Pluralist according to Nash will state that when someone from a certain religion is affirming or denying religious truths they are only stating their opinion or preference for that religion. However, this is not an accurate statement and in order for it to be true, Smith is required to change propositions of all people groups and from a vase array of world religions. Nash relates these arguments like Smith’s idea of pluralist finds their basis in existentialism. Nash affirms that if Smith’s theory is correct, then every follower of each of the worlds’ major religions are wrong and

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