In this classic work, prominent religious philosopher John Hick presents a global interpretation of religion, arguing for a religious response to our ambiguous universe and showing how the world’s different religions are culturally conditioned forms of that response. Praise for the first edition: “This book strengthens Hick’s position as one of the most significant thinkers of the second …
This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion are always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested issues regarding truth and knowledge. It challenges the view that religi…
An introduction to the history of religions surveys the attitudes toward religion expressed by thinkers, scholars, and writers from classical antiquity to the twentieth century
Though the Romans to some extent brought about religious uniformity in the Empire by spreading the worship of their own gods, and by adopting those of their subjects, there was, of course, no such religion as Paganism - only a body of cults, not welded into a coherent whole, and presenting themselves under many different aspects.1 The ceremonies and institutions of the old national faith hardly…
According to the author, the main efforts of this book are to describe the background and character of the present ferment in theology. It appeared first in the form of a paper on the radical, or "God is dead," theology, written for the Society for Theological Discussion in the fall of 1963. And to assess the importance of this upheaval for contemporary religious thought to point out some of th…