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The hope is that by comparing two things — the known with the unknown, the foreign with the familiar — we might better understand the world and reconsider our place in it.
John Hick’s Religious Pluralism in Global Perspective is edited by Dr Sharada Sugirtharajah, an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Birmingham and former student of John Hick. The book brings together a range of essays from Western,
The problem of evil is a philosophical question that asks if a Being who is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good, can create evil.
Do you want to get born again? Like the Greek idea of the immortal soul, the Indian idea of reincarnation relies on a soulechtomy--that is, the removal of an immaterial soul from a physical body. Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains add the wheel of rebirth until the soul realizes its oneness with the All, the ground of all reality. The soul is then liberated from reincarnation. Reincarnation is only a detour en route to full liberation.
Early evangelical study taught him of ‘the love and forgiveness of God’ but his ‘understanding of what the word God might mean’ changed