Savior touch on the theory and belief of John Hick who believes that there are many ways to salvation. Nash concentrated on three issues that has been debated and still is being debated today that divides religious thinkers; that is exclusivism, pluralism, and inclusivism. Nash wanted to see whether or not pluralism succeeded in developing a strong case against exclusivism to lead people to abandon their teachings of Jesus Christ. This paper will focus on pluralism and the argument against it. Nash develops
1-6: Pluralism by Ronald H. Nash Justin W. Cullen Theology 313 July 29, 2012 Analysis Ronald H. Nash begins his book responding the position of pluralism in regards to the exclusivity of Jesus Christ, mainly directed at John Hick, who was a leading proponent of pluralism until his death earlier this year. Nash was an evangelical Baptist theologian and apologist, who subscribed to the Calvinist tradition. Within his book, Nash tackles several of Hick’s arguments relating to the pluralism and
Is Jesus the only Savior? This question does not seem to come up in daily conversation with true believers. John 14:6, “Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Ronald H. Nash was a professor and writer for over 40 years. Nash wrote “this book to examine three competing views, identifies some of their major proponents, and explains why they believe as they do, with a view to determining which is true.” (Nash, 1994, p. 9). Analysis
John Hick in his essay as parallelism think that all religions are true and that they are only different routes to God or the Real to find salvation. The religions have same similarities and some areas of conflict that Hick explain with his theory of Pluralism. Pluralism is when more than one religion is true. In the last section of the essay, Hick explain the move of Christians from being exclusive to inclusive. In this period of globalization and diversity, Pluralism is the way communities with
John Harwood Hick (1922-2012) BIBLIOGRAPHY John Harwood Hick was born on 20th January, 1922 to Aileen Hick and Mark Hick in Scarborough, England. Hick’s ancestors were owners of successful shipping firm. However, his grandfather abandoned the shipping business to become an attorney. John Hick was arguably among the most influential and important philosophers of religion of the 2nd half of the 20th century. It is worth noting that as a British Philosophical thinker in the Anglo analytic tradition
Religious diversity which is commonly referred to as religious pluralism is perceived as a form of tolerance which enables people with a different belief system to co-exist in society. Different religion philosophers have various views on the subject which has led to the never-ending debate which revolves around religious exclusivity and religious pluralism. Religious pluralism is based on the fact that all religions are interconnected in their set of morals and hope of liberation in different ways
religion. John Hick, for example, studied the implications of religion as a whole. Throughout Hick’s studies, he found his main focus to be pluralism and how these religious experiences impact those involved. John Hick used his knowledge to write a novel called, “The Fifth Dimension,” which is based solely off of his research and personal thoughts which appear to focus mainly on the subject at hand. With Hick’s main theme of pluralism in place he goes on to explain in his own words what pluralism means
whether this is true or not, Hick has a logical argument at this point. Nash points out that Hick’s convictions for a pluralistic philosophical view are because he believes that God is a loving being. His argument has just become non sequitor and as a result exploited by Nash as well as other scholars. Although it seems that over the years Kick’s arguments for a pluralistic system have grown stronger in content, they reveal just as many problems as the first system. Hick moves his system from centering
pluralist by John Hick, inclusivist by Clark Pinnock, particularist by Alister McGrath, and evidentialist by R. Douglas Geivett and W. Gary Phillips. The primary contention of the book is about if Jesus is the only Savior? And if that is true, then what happens with those who profess faith and salvation outside of Jesus Christ. The Four Views of Salvation are a single volume that introduced the reader to the “basic positions within evangelicalism” The editors stated that the term pluralism favors many
hard to see how they could all be true at any rate. In response to this problem, two solutions have been proposed: pluralism and exclusivism. Pluralism makes a claim that all of the religions are true in their own way where exclusivism, on the other hand, makes the claim that only one religion is true in its beliefs. I will be discussing the differences between exclusivism and pluralism in depth as responses to the problem of religious diversity as well as comparing and contrasting Christianity and