Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic

The philosophy of religion and theology are related to the culture in which they have developed. These disciplines provide a source of values and vision to the cultures of which they are part, while at the same time they are delimited and defined by their cultures. This book compares the ideas of two contemporary philosophers, John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, on the issues of religion, religions, the concept of the ultimate reality, and the notion of sacred knowledge. On a broader level, it compares two world-views: the one formed by Western Christian culture, which is religious in intention but secular in essence; the other Islamic, formed through the assimilation of traditional wisdom, which is turned against the norms of secular culture and is thus religious both in intention and essence.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Intellectual Biographies	p. 1
John Hick	p. 2
Seyyed Hossein Nasr	p. 13
Religion and Tradition	p. 27
The Origin of Religion	p. 27
Religion and Change	p. 37
The Sophia Perennis	p. 43
What is Tradition?	p. 46
Knowledge and the Ultimate	p. 55
The Religious 'Neutrality' of the Universe	p. 55
Religious Experience	p. 61
Religious Language	p. 73
Knowledge as Vision	p. 77
'Given Knowledge' or 'Gained Knowledge': Intellect and Reason	p. 80
Is God Knowable?	p. 88
To Know is to be Saved	p. 93
The Need for a Pluralistic Approach in Religion	p. 98
Globalization and Religion	p. 98
Religious Identity and Fortuity of 'Birth'	p. 101
Absolute Truth Claims of Religions	p. 103
The Diversity of Religions	p. 107
The Cultural Limits of Hick's Hypothesis of Religious Pluralism	p. 110
The Traditional Conception of Religions	p. 114
Secularisation Process and the Eclipse of the Sacred	p. 118
The Rediscovery of Tradition	p. 123
The Limits of the Traditional Outlook	p. 128
The Ultimate and Pluralism	p. 130
The Ineffable Deity	p. 130
Does the Real Possess any Qualities?	p. 136
The Real and the 'gods' of Religions	p. 139
Salvation as Transformation	p. 147
Some Critical Remarks on Hick's Hypothesis	p. 150
God as Reality	p. 151
The Ultimate in the Manifested Order	p. 157
The Absolute in Diverse Religious Forms	p. 161
An Assessment of Nasr's Account of Reality	p. 168
Christianity and Islam: Manifestations of the Ultimate	p. 171
Christianity and Pluralism	p. 171
A New Christology for a New World	p. 175
Hick's Perception of Islam	p. 182
Islam and Pluralism	p. 186
A Theoretical Framework for an 'Islamic Religious Pluralism'	p. 187
Historical Manifestation of the Principle of 'Islamic Pluralism'	p. 196
Islam and Modernity	p. 200
Christianity and Christ: A Muslim View	p. 202
Notes	p. 207
Religions and the Concept of Ultimate	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 274
Index	p. 286
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Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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