A teleological interpretation of John Hick's threefold typology
A teleological interpretation of John Hick's threefold typology
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2019
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Prajna Vihara: The Journal of Philosophy and Religion 20, 1 (January-June 2019), 18-40
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This research critically investigates the soteriological ground
of John Hick’s religious typology and his understanding of
Religious Pluralism. It begins by considering the criticsims
of Gavin D’Costa who, in his early work, favored Hick’s
typology in Theology and Religious Pluralism, but later
became critical of it in his work, Impossibility of a Pluralist
view of Religions. It will also consider Paul Knitter’s
alternative fourfold typology introduced in his work,
Introducing Theologies of Religions, and Mark Heim’s
ideas concerning religious pluralism in his work Salvation.
Finally, the paper will investigate Zen Buddhism’s view of
a “positionless position” as a “non-common denominator”
from Masao Abe’s Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue
to see if Hick’s idea of ultimate reality is viable basis to
defend religious pluralism. After demonstrating these
critiques of Hick’s main soteriological grounds of this
threefold typology, the research defends a new framework
of threefold typology, not built on soteriological grounds,
but on teleological grounds, in order to fulfill Hick’s own
wishes for promoting peace both spiritually and socially.
This is a new framework which can embrace the beliefs of
not only pluralists, but also exclusivists and inclusivists,
and those who comprise the majority of Christians in the
world today.
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