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According to Wikipedia, John Harwood Hick was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the areas of theodicy, eschatology, and Christology, and in the philosophy of religion he contributed to the areas of epistemology of religion and religious pluralism.

John Hick's Published Works

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Published Papers

An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent (288)
Evil and the God of love (274)
Faith and Knowledge (262)
On Religious Experience (262)
An interpretation of religion (208)
God has many names (113)
Death and eternal life (111)
Problems of religious pluralism (110)
Theology and Verification (103)
God and the universe of faiths (95)
The Myth of God Incarnate (93)
The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions (85)
Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion (58)
Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion (57)
The metaphor of God incarnate (46)
Systematic Theology 1 (45)
God and the Universe of Faiths: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (43)
Four views on salvation in a pluralistic world (42)
The fifth dimension : an exploration of the spiritual realm (39)
Arguments for the Existence of God (39)
The New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience and the Transcendent (37)
Book Review: A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths (36)
The Non-absoluteness of Christianity (35)
The many-faced argument (34)
The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (29)
Religious Pluralism and Salvation (29)
The Metaphor of God Incarnate: Christology in a Pluralistic Age (27)
A Concluding Comment (26)
The existence of God (25)
The fifth dimension (24)
Spirituality for Today (23)
The Epistemological Challenge of Religious Pluralism (22)
The possibility of religious pluralism : A reply to Gavin D'Costa (21)
Paradox and Promise: Hick’s Solution to the Problem of Evil (20)
Christianity and Other Religions (19)
Christianity and Other Religions: Selected Readings (19)
The New Frontier of Religion and Science (18)
Truth and dialogue : the relationship between world religions (17)
On Conflicting Religious Truth-Claims (16)
Ineffability (16)
Religious Realism and Non-Realism: Defining the Issue (15)
The Starting-Point (15)
The Experience of Religious Diversity (14)
Talk of God (13)
Jesus and the world religions (13)
Towards a Philosophy of Religious Pluralism (13)
Why Believe in God (13)
The Many-Faced Argument. Recent Studies on the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God (13)
Religious Faith as Experiencing-As (12)
Whatever path men choose is Mine (11)
Classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion. (11)
Bose-Einstein condensation at finite momentum and magnon condensation in thin film ferromagnets (11)
Thermalization of magnons in yttrium-iron garnet: Nonequilibrium functional renormalization group approach (11)
The Rainbow of Faiths: Critical Dialogues on Religious Pluralism (11)
God has many names : Britain's new religious pluralism (11)
God as Necessary Being (10)
Who or What is God?: And Other Investigations (10)
On Grading Religions (10)
Squares and Circles: John Hick and the Doctrine of the Incarnation (10)
Gandhi's significance for today (9)
Truth and dialogue in world religions: conflicting truth-claims (9)
Soul-Making Theodicy (9)
The Second Christianity (9)
The Philosophy of World Religions (8)
Faith and the Philosophers (8)
Eschatological Verification Reconsidered (8)
The Theology of Religious Pluralism (8)
Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason (8)
A Philosophy of Religious Pluralism (7)
Christianity at the centre (7)
Religion as ‘skilful means’: A hint from Buddhism (7)
The Modern Predicament. (7)
Sceptics and Believers (7)
Exclusivism versus pluralism in religion: a response to Kevin Meeker (7)
Religious Pluralism and Absolute Claims (7)
Three Faiths — One God (6)
Trinity and Incarnation in the Light of Religious Pluralism (6)
COHERENCE AND THE GOD OF LOVE AGAIN (6)
Between Faith and Doubt (6)
What Characterizes Religious Language (6)
Faith and Knowledge: A Modern Introduction to the Problem of Religious Knowledge (6)
John Hick's Theodicy: A Process Humanist Critique (6)
Philosophy of religion / John H. Hick (6)
A John Hick Reader (5)
D. Z. Phillips1 on God and evil (5)
Is Christianity the Only True Religion (4)
What Is Religious Experience (4)
Seeing-as and Religious Experience (4)
The Copernican Revolution in Theology (4)
John Hick and Religious Pluralism: Yet Another Revolution (4)
The Rationality of Religious Belief (4)
Suffering, meaning, and the welfare of children: What do theodicies do? Authors' replies (4)
Transcendence and Truth (4)
Religion without Transcendence (4)
Three Faiths ― One God: A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Encounter (4)
The Pursuit of Death (3)
Epilogue: The Future (3)
Religious Pluralism and the Rationality of Religious Belief (3)
Mr. Clarke’s resurrection also (3)
FREEDOM AND THE IRENAEAN THEODICY AGAIN (3)
Hick, the Real and al-∼∞Haqq. Author's reply (3)
God is Alive (3)
World Religions (3)
The Theological Challenge of Religious Pluralism (3)
God and Christianity according to Swinburne (3)
The Christology of D. M. Baillie (3)
God, Evil and Mystery (3)
The Latest Vatican Statement on Christianity and Other Religions (3)
The Epistemological Problem (3)
The Real and Its Personae and Impersonae (2)
H. H. Price. Essays in the Philosophy of Religion . Pp. 125. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972). £2·25. (2)
The Moment of Truth: Mysterium Mortis . By Ladislaus Boros. Burns & Oates, London, 1969. Pp. x + 201. 18s (2)
Religious Pluralism and the Modern World: An Ongoing Engagement with John Hick (2)
STRAIGHTENING THE RECORD: SOME RESPONSE TO CRITICS (2)
Peter Byrne. Prolegomena to Religious Pluralism: Reference and Realism in Religion . Pp. ix + 214. (London: Macmillan, New York: St Martin's Press, 1995.) £40. (2)
Response to Knepper (2)
A Religious Understanding of Religion: a Model of the Relationship between Traditions (2)
Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil (2)
RESURRECTION WORLDS AND BODIES (2)
The Reconstruction of Christian Belief for Today and Tomorrow: 2 (2)
Is There Only One Way To God? (2)
Recent Work on the Problem of Evil (2)
Rational Theistic Belief Without Proofs (2)
Pluralism and the Religions (2)
An Analytical Philosophy of Religion . By Willem F. Zuurdeeg. Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tenn. Pp. 320. $4.75. (2)
Religion as ' Skilful Means ' (2)
Religious Pluralism and the Divine: A Response to Paul Eddy (2)
Implications for Islam (2)
Religion as ‘Skilful Means’ (2)
Islam and Christian Monotheism (2)
The Logic of God Incarnate (2)
The centre of Christianity (2)
The Teachings of the Mystics: Being Selections from the Great Mystics and Mystical Writings of the World (2)
Glyn Richards. Towards a Theology of Religions . Pp. xi + 179. (London and New York: Routledge. 1989.) £30.00. (1)
Faith as Knowledge (1)
What Is Man (1)
An Interpretation of An Interpretation of Religion (1)
The wider context: Christianity and race in Britain today (1)
A Modern Philosophy Of Religion (1)
The Problem of Evil in Reformed Thought (1)
Is the Doctrine of Atonement a Mistake (1)
In Defence of Religious Pluralism (1)
Modern Voluntarist Views of Faith (1)
Pluralism Conference (1)
Faith and Coercion (1)
The Pluralistic Hypothesis (1)
A Personal Note (1)
The Theological Challenge of Religious Pluralism (1)
The Faces of Immortality (1)
Religions and the concept of the ultimate : An interview with John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1)
The Reconstruction of Christian Belief for Today and Tomorrow: 1 (1)
Response to Dr Reçber (1)
At the Bend in the Road: A Story about Religious Pluralism (1)
The New Map of the Universe of Faiths (1)
Mind/Brain Identity? (1)
An Inspiration Christology (1)
Rational Theology and the Creativity of God . By Keith Ward. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982. Pp. 240. £14.00. (1)
Encounter in the Spirit: Muslim-Christian Meetings in Birmingham . By Andrew Wingate. London, British Council of Churches, 1988. Pp. 86. £3.50. (1)
The Thomist-Catholic View of Faith (1)
Salvation/Liberation as Human Transformation (1)
A Response to Cardinal Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism (1)
A Note on Pannenberg's Eschatology (1)
The Neurosciences’ Challenge to Religious Experience (1)
Hick against Himself: His Theodicy versus his Replica Theory (1)
Eighteenth-Century ‘Optimism’ (1)
On Wilfred Cantwell Smith: His Place in the Study of Religion (1)
O.M.I. Colm Connellan. Why Does Evil Exist?. Pp. vii + 211. (Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press.) $10.00. (1)
A RESPONSE TO GERARD LOUGHLIN (1)
‘Education and the law in Birmingham’—a comment (1)
The Foundation of Christianity: Jesus or the Apostolic Message? (1)
Climbing the Foothills of Understanding (1)
Jesus and Mohammad (1)
Faith, evidence, coercion again (1)
Responses to Religious Diversity (1)
DO RELIGIOUS CLAIMS MAKE SENSE (1)
The Justification of Religious Belief (1)
A Possible Conception of Life after Death (1)
The Soteriological Character of Post-Axial Religion (1)
Edward H. Madden and Peter H. Hare, Evil and the Concept of God . (Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. Pp. 142 + vii. Price not given.) (1)
Life after Death (0)
Christian Belief and Inter-faith Dialogue (0)
Book Reviews (0)
Experience and God . By John E. Smith. (Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. 209. 40s 6d). (0)
Spirituality and Mysticism (0)
The Irenaean Type of Theodicy in Schleiermacher (0)
Christian Empiricism. Studies in Philosophy and Religion I (0)
The Foundations of Belief, by Leslie Dewart. 526 pp. New York, Herder & Herder, 1969. $9.50 (0)
The Two Theodicies — Contrasts and Agreements (0)
Faith and Verification (0)
Dividing the Light from the Darkness (0)
Beyond Death: The Rebirth of Immortality (0)
A Response to Cardinal Ratzinger (0)
Is Christianity the Only True Religion? (0)
Book Reviews (0)
The Personae of the Real (0)
General works on philosophy of religion (0)
Book Review: Faith and Speculation (0)
Contemporary Non-Realist Religion (0)
The Fountainhead: St. Augustine — The principle of plenitude and the aesthetic theme (0)
The Reality of Faith, by Friedrich Gogarten, Translated by Carl Michalson and Others. 192 pp. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1959. $3.95 (0)
The Buddhist Conception of Rebirth (0)
Cardinal Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism (0)
The Problem and its Terms (0)
The Role of Knowledge in Western Religion, by John Herman Randall, Jr. 147 pp. Boston, Starr King Press, 1958. $3.50 (0)
The Fountainhead: St. Augustine — Evil as privation of good stemming from misused freedom (0)
Later Christian Thought (0)
Faith and Freedom (0)
Talking Points from Books (0)
Terence Penelhum , God and Skepticism: A Study in Skepticism and Fideism . Reviewed by (0)
Rediscovering H. H. Farmer (0)
From Desk to Pulpit (0)
The Epistemological Solution (0)
Faith and Fact (0)
Book Review: Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy (0)
John Hick on the Self and Resurrection (0)
Elliptograph, a new drawing instrument (0)
A Comment on Professor Binkley's Reply (0)
Humanism and Death (0)
Courteous Query for Bennett and Ramsey1 (0)
Implications for Christianity (0)
More on Neuroscience (0)
W. E. G. Floyd. Clement of Alexandria's Treatment of the Problem of Evil . Pp. xxiii + 108. (Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford University Press, 1971.) £2·10. (0)
God and Philosophy, by Antony Flew. 208 pp. London, Hutchinson, 1966. Paper, 12/6d (0)
Theology’s Central Problem (0)
Living in a Multi-cultural Society (0)
REINCARNATION OR CONTINUOUS MANIFESTATION ? (0)
Letters to the Editor (0)
Learning from Other Faiths (0)
The Problem of Conflicting Truth-Claims (0)
Experiments on the friction of the leather collars in hydraulic collars in hydraulic presses (0)
Faith and Moral Judgment (0)
Contemporary Catholic Views (0)
Books in review (0)
Religion as Fact-asserting (0)
The Naturalistic Option (0)
Natural Meaning and Experience (0)
The Contribution of Parapsychology (0)
A Response to Cardinal Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism (0)
The Vedantic Theory of Reincarnation (0)
The Ontological Argument: Second Form (0)
Sin and the Fall According to the Hellenistic Fathers (0)
Hendrik M. Vroom. Religions and the Truth: Philosophical Reflections and Perspectives , trans. J. W. Rebel. Pp. 388. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman, 1989.) Paper, $23.95. (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1989.) fl. 160; paper, fl. 48. (0)
Reincarnation — the Basic Conception (0)
Towards a Theology of Death (0)
Soteriology and Ethics (0)
The Two Poles of Thought — Monism and Dualism (0)
Theology's Central Problem (0)
Theological Table-Talk (0)
Jews, Christians, Muslims: Do We All Worship the Same God? (0)
Myth, Mystery and the Unanswered Questions (0)
Present and Future Life (0)
Transcendence and Truth: A Response to D.Z. Phillips (0)
A Possible Pareschatology (0)
The Faith of a Heretic, by Walter Kaufmann. 432 pp. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1961. $4.95 (0)
The Symbolism of Evil, by Paul Ricoeur. 357 pp. New York, Harper & Row, 1967. $8.50 (0)
Introduction: a spiritual pilgrimage (0)
Incarnation and Mythology (0)
Ineffability: A Response to William Rowe and Christopher Insole (0)
The Cosmological Argument (0)
New Testament Views of the After-Life (0)
By Their Fruits You Will Know Them (0)
Book Review:Religious Encounters with Death: Insights from the History and Anthropology of Religions Frank E. Reynolds, Earle H. Waugh (0)
Catholic Thought from Augustine to the Present Day (0)
Prospect for Metaphysics: Essays in Metaphysical Exploration, Edited by Ian Ramsey. 240 pp. New York, Philosophical Library, 1961. $6.00 (0)
Ontological, Cosmological and Design Arguments (0)
Faith and Rationality. Alvin Plantinga , Nicholas Wolterstorff (0)
Reform Movements within Christianity and Islam (0)
Humanism and Hick’s Interpretation of Religion (0)
The Impersonae of the Real (0)
Christianity and Paradox, by Ronald W. Hepburn. 210 pp. New York, Humanities Press, 1959. $3.75 (0)
The Expository Times (0)
The Latest Vatican Statement on Religious Pluralism (0)
The Kingdom of God and the Will of God (0)
Suffering and Wickedness (0)
Suffering. Dorothee Soelle (0)
The Alternative Possibility (0)
Book Review:An Analytical Philosophy of Religion. Willem F. Zuurdeeg (0)
Neuroscience and Religious Experience (0)
Literature (0)
The Nature of Faith (0)
Ethical Naturalism and the Modern World- View, by E. M. Adams. 230 pp. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1960. $6.00 (0)
Christ and the Christian by Nels F. S. Ferré. Harper & Brothers, New York. Pp. 253. $3.75; and Collins, London, 1958. 12s. 6d. (0)
Incarnation (0)
The Origins of After-Life and Immortality Beliefs (0)
The Logic of Perfection, by Charles Hartshorne. 335 pp. LaSalle, Illinois, Open Court Publishing Company, 1962. $6.00 (0)
Major Intellectual Difficulties (0)
Religion and Culture: Essays in honour of Paul Tillich . Edited by Walter Leibrecht. S.C.M. Press, London, 1958. Pp. 400. 45s. (0)
Can Religious Experience Provide Justification for the Belief in God ? The Debate in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (0)
Trusting Religious Experience (0)
POSITIVISM AND CHRISTIANITY (0)
GOD AND TIMELESSNESS (0)
Defining the Issue: Naturalism vs. Religion (0)
Metaphysics and Religious Language, by Frank B. Dilley. 173 pp. New York, Columbia University Press. 1964. $4.00 (0)
Despite the Religious Contradictions (0)
Comment on Francis Cook (0)
God, Pain and Evil, by George A. Buttrick. 272 pp. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1966. $5.95 (0)
The Reconstruction of Christian Belief (0)
Alvin Plantinga. God, Freedom and Evil . Pp. 112. (Allen & Unwin, 1975.) Paperback, £1.75. (0)
Introduction: Climbing the Foothills of Understanding — An Intellectual Autobiography (0)
Religion as Human Institutions (0)
Reincarnation — Discriminations and Conclusions (0)
Moksha, Nirvana and the Unitive State (0)
Religious Experience: Its Nature and Validity (0)
Religious Realism and Non-realism (0)
The Cosmic Optimism of Post-Axial Religion (0)
Contemporary Protestant Views (0)
Faith and the Illative Sense (0)
The Resurrection of the Person (0)
Comment on Stephen Davis (0)
Response to Rnepper (0)
Introduction: Climbing the Foothills of Understanding – An Intellectual Autobiography (0)
Immortality or Extinction?. Paul Badham , Linda Badham (0)
The Design Argument (0)
Faith and Works (0)
A Possible Eschatology (0)
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN THE FIRST AND LAST THINGS (0)
The Gospel of the Incarnation . By George S. Hendry. Westminster Press, Philadelphia. Pp.174. $3.751 and S.C.M. Press. (0)
10-1-1988 Religious Pluralism And Salvation (0)
Brand Blanshard's "Reason and Belief" (0)
Talking Points from Books (0)
The Freedom of the Will, by Austin Farrer. 330 pp. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. $4.95 (0)
Paul Knitter on the Person of Christ (0)
John Hick’s An Interpretation of Religion (0)
Can God’s Existence Be Proved? (0)
Science and Sentiment in America: By Morton White New York, Oxford University Press, 1972. 358 pp. $8.95 (0)
Comment on “Jesus' Unsurpassable Uniqueness” (0)
The Changing Sociology of Death (0)
The Buddha’s Doctrine of the ‘Undetermined Questions’ (0)
The new religious pluralism (0)
A Brief Response to Aimee Upjohn Light (0)
Is Religion an American Heresy? (0)
What Do We Mean by God (0)
Conclusion: Three Reflections (0)
A Comparison of John Hick and Carl Braaten on the Finality of Jesus Christ (0)
Ethical and Aesthetic Meaning and Experience (0)
A Response to Andrew Kirk on Religious Pluralism (0)
Language, Logic and God, by Frederick Ferré. 184 pp. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1961. $3.50 (0)
Memento Mori: The Buddhist Thinks about Death (0)
Only One Way to God? (0)
Vapor Theologicum (0)
The Survival of the Disembodied Mind (0)
Religion Defined and Explained . By Peter B. Clarke and Peter Byrne. London, Macmillan, 1993. Pp. ix + 216. £40.00. (0)
Death in Contemporary Philosophy (0)
Words and Images: A Study in Theological Discourse . By E. L. Mascall. Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. 132. 12s. 6d. (0)
Book Review: Relativism, Knowledge and Faith (0)
On the ontological argument with special reference to Jacques paliard (0)
Christ and Incarnation (0)
The Clarity of God's Existence: The Ethics of Belief after the Enlightenment – By Owen Anderson (0)
The Essence of Christianity (0)
Religious Meaning and Experience (0)
Incarnation in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (0)
Religious Pluralism for Evangelicals (0)
Caveats and Questions (0)
Peter Byrne. Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion: The Legacy of Deism. Pp. 271 + xv. (London and New York: Routledge, 1989.) £35.00. (0)
Religion and Reality (0)
Any Particular Religion (0)
Responses and Discussion (0)
Teleology and Probability (0)
The Self as Agent . By John Macmurray. Faber & Faber. Pp.230. 25s. (0)
The Ontological Argument: First Form (0)
Theism and Empiricism . By A. Boyce Gibson. (S.C.M. Press Ltd., 1970. Pp. vii + 280. £2.5Op.) (0)
The Ethical Criterion (0)
Evil, karma, and reincarnation: NAYAK, G. C., Visva-Bharati: Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, 1973, pp. x + 176, 34 Rupees (0)
In Search of the Lost Cord: Solving the Mystery of Spinal Cord Regeneration (0)
Current Naturalistic Theories (0)
Morality, Religious Experience and Overall Probability (0)
Revelation Through Reason, by Errol E. Harris. 160 pp. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1958. $4.00 (0)
The Religions: Good or Bad? (0)

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