The Presuppositions of Religious Pluralism and the Need for Natural Theology
In ‘The Presuppositions of Religious Pluralism and the Need for Natural Theology’ I argue that there are four important presuppositions behind John Hick’s form of religious pluralism that successfully support it against what I call fideistic exclusivism. These are i) the ought/can principle, ii) the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2008
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Sophia
Year: 2008, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-222 |
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William Rowe
B Fideistic exclusivism B Intuition B General Revelation B Reason B Fideism B Vasubandhu B Vivekananda B John Hick B Special Revelation B Immanuel Kant B Post-Kantian theology B William Lane Craig B Rational exclusivism B J.P. Moreland B Inference B LAW OF NON-CONTRADICTION B can principle / Ought B Nagarjuna B Religious Experience B Pluralism B Alvin Plantinga B Redemption B Natural Theology B Sensus Divinitatis |
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| Summary: | In ‘The Presuppositions of Religious Pluralism and the Need for Natural Theology’ I argue that there are four important presuppositions behind John Hick’s form of religious pluralism that successfully support it against what I call fideistic exclusivism. These are i) the ought/can principle, ii) the universality of religious experience, iii) the universality of redemptive change, and iv) a view of how God (the Eternal) would do things. I then argue that if these are more fully developed they support a different kind of exclusivism, what I call rational exclusivism, and become defeaters for pluralism. In order to explain rational exclusivism and its dependence on these presuppositions I consider philosophers J.P. Moreland, William Lane Craig, and Alvin Plantinga, who offer arguments for their forms of exclusivism but I maintain that they continue to rely on fideism at important points. I then give an example of how knowledge of the Eternal can be achieved. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-008-0065-4 |