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Front Cover ; Title Page; Christian Theology and Religious Pluralism A Critical Evaluation of John Hick; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Religious Pluralism and John Hick; The Pluralistic Situation; The Problem Of Religious Plurality ; Types Of Theological Responses; Religious Exclusivism; Religious Inclusivism; Religious Pluralism; Hick's Personal Background; 2 Hick's Philosophy of Religious Pluralism; Introduction; The Evolution Of Hick's Pluralistic Philosophy; Hick's Philosophy Of Religious Pluralism#; Metaphysical Ontology; Ethical Soteriology.

An Evaluation Of Hick's Philosophy Of Religious PluralismEpistemological Methodology; Nonpropositional Epistemology; Transcendental Agnosticism; Doctrinal Reductionism; Conclusion; 3 Hick's Theology of Religious Pluralism; Introduction; Hick's Deconstruction of Traditional Christology; The Jesus of History and the Origins of Christology; Two-Natures Christologies; Historical Side-Effects of the Incarnation Dogma; The Doctrine of the Atonement; Hick's Reconstructino of a new Christology; Conclusion; 4 An Evaluation of Hick's Historical Arguments ; Historical Methodology.

Jesus' Self-UnderstandingJesus' Use of ""Abba""; Jesus' Attitude Toward the Law of Moses; Jesus' Authority to Forgive Sins; The "Son"; The "Son of Man"; Other Considerations; The Resurrection; Jesus' Burial; Paul's Understanding; The Empty Tomb; The Jesus Movement; Origins of the Dogma of Christ's Deity; 5 An Evaluation of Hick's Conceptual Arguments; Hick on Morris; Hick on Kenotic Theories; Hick on Weston; Conclusion.

The question of religious pluralism is the most significant yet thorniest of issues in theology today, and John Hick (1922-2012) has long been recognized as its most important scholar. However, while much has been written analyzing the philosophical basis of Hick's pluralism, very little attention has been devoted to the theological foundations of his argument. Filling this gap, this book examines Hick's theological attempts to systematically deconstruct the church's traditional incarnational Christology. Special attention is given to evaluating Hick's foundational theses ""that Jesus himself.

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