Christian Theology and Religious Pluralism: A Critical Evaluation of John Hick

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 Hicks pluralism very little attention has been devoted to the theological foundations of his argument. Filling this gap this book examines Hicks theological attempts to systematically deconstruct the churchs traditional incarnational Christology. Special attention is given to evaluating Hicks foundational theses that Jesus himself did not teach what was to become the orthodox Christian understanding of him and that the dogma of Jesus two natures . . . has proved to be incapable of being explicated in any satisfactory way. By elucidating the ways in which Hicks arguments fail David Nah demonstrates that Hick was unwarranted in breaking away from the churchs incarnational Christology that has been at the core of Christianity for almost two thousand years.