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Professor Hick and the Universe of Faiths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Duncan B. Forrester
Duncan B. Forrester
Affiliation:
School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, BNI 9QN
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In recent essays Professor John Hick has argued that serious theological consideration of the relationship of Christianity and other world faiths has become in the present generation for the first time unavoidable; that this must lead to a revolution in theological thought so radical that it can be spoken of as ‘Copernican’; and that the consequent reshaping of Christian doctrine, for which he has made a number of suggestions, cannot but change in deeply significant and quite unprecedented ways the traditional teaching of the Church. In this paper I wish to raise some questions about this ‘Copernican Revolution’, the exact nature of which is not made as clear as we might expect, as a theological response to the present situation, asking whether it is helpful in inter-religious dialogue and acceptable as an account of Christianity, of other living faiths, and of the relation between them.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1976 , pp. 65 - 72
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1976

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page 72 note 1 See his essays ‘Christ and Incarnation’ and ‘Incarnation and Mythology’ in Universe of Faiths, pp. 148–79.

page 72 note 2 ibid., p. 148.