JOHN HICK is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK and has taught at the Claremont Graduate University, California, the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham, UK, Cornell University and the Princeton Theological Seminary. Among his many books are Faith and Knowledge, Philosophy of Religion, The Second Christianity, God and the Universe of Faiths, Arguments for the Existence of God, Problems of Religious Pluralism, Evil and the God of Love, Death and Eternal Life, Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion, The Metaphor of God Incarnate, The Fifth Dimension, Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion and John Hick: An Autobiography.

1 New edition of classic text - sold 10,346 copies in paperback since publication in 1991
2 John Hick is one of the biggest names in the Philosophy of Religion
3 The updated, reissued edition will appeal to a new generation of Hick scholars
4 Hick is widely studied in both the UK and USA
5 First edition very well-reviewed
6 Contains a lengthy Introduction responding to critical issues raised since the book's first publication in 1989, as well as an updated Bibliography
7 Written with great clarity and accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students and mature scholars

Preface Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition PART I: PHENOMENOLOGICAL The Soteriological Character of Post-Axial Religion Salvation/Liberation as Human Transformation The Cosmic Optimism of Post-Axial Religion PART II: THE RELIGIOUS AMBIGUITY OF THE UNIVERSE Ontological, Cosmological and Design Arguments Morality, Experience and Overall Probability The Naturalistic Option PART III: EPISTEMOLOGICAL Natural Meaning and Experience Ethical and Aesthetic Meaning and Experience Religious Meaning and Experience Religion and Reality Contemporary non-Realist Religion The Rationality of Religious Belief PART IV: THE PLURALISTIC HYPOTHESIS The Pluralistic Hypothesis The Personae of the Real The Impersonae of the Real PART V: CRITERIOLOGICAL Soteriology and Ethics The Moral Criterion Myths, Mysteries and the Unanswered Questions The Problem of Conflicting Truth-Claims Epilogue: The Future Bibliography Index