John Harwood Hick

Background

Hick, John Harwood was born on January 20, 1922 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Came to the United States, 1956. Son of Mark Day and Mary Aileen (Hirst) Hick.

Education

Master of Arts, Edinburgh (Scotland) University, 1948. Doctor of Literature, Edinburgh (Scotland) University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1950.

Postgraduate, Westminster Theological College, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy by incorporation, Cambridge University, 1964. Doctor of Theology (honorary), Uppsala University, 1977.

Career

Minister Belford Presbyterian Church, Northumberland, England, 1953-1956. Assistant professor philosophy Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1956-1959. Stuart professor Christian philosophy Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, 1959-1964.

Lecturer divinity Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 1964-1967. H.G. Wood professor theology Birmingham (England) University, 1967-1982. Danforth professor emeritus philosophy of religion Claremont (California) Graduate School, 1979-1992, professor emeritus, since 1992.

Honorary professor University Wales, since 1995. Mead-Swing lecturer Oberlin College, 1962. Mary Farnum Brown lecturer Haverford College, 1964.

James W. Richard lecturer University Virginia, 1969. Arthur Stanley Eddington Memorial lecturer Cambridge University, 1972, Stanton lecturer, 1974-1977. Teape lecturer New Delhi University, 1975.

Ingersoll lecturer Harvard University, 1977. Hope lecturer, London, 1977. Mackintosh lecturer East Anglia University, 1978.

Riddell lecturer Newcastle University, 1979. Montefiore lecturer University London, 1980. Brooks lecturer University Southern California, 1982.

Niebuhr lecturer Elmhurst College, 1986. Gifford lecturer University Edinburgh, 1986-1987. Kegley lecturer California State University, Bakersfield, 1988.

Fritz Marti lecturer University Southern Illinois, 1989. Birks lecturer McGill University, 1989. Resler lecturer Ohio State University, 1991.

Showers lecturer University Indianapolis, 1993. McMartin lecturer University Ottawa, 1993. Auburn lecturer Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1994.

Lily Montague lecturer, London, 1994. Killeen lecturer St. Norbert College, 1995. Spencer Memorial lecturer University Bristol, 1996.

Visiting professor Benares Hindu University, Visva-Bharati University, Punjabi University, Goa University, India, University Sri Lanka. Visiting fellow British Academy Overseas, 1974, 90. Select preacher Oxford University, 1970.

Hulsean preacher Cambridge University, 1969. Vice president World Congress of Faiths, since 1993. Whyte lecturer University Oxford, 1998.

Achievements

• John Harwood Hick has been listed as a noteworthy theologian, philosopher, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths

    ( Renowned theologian and philosopher of religion John Hi...)

  • An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent

    (In this classic work, prominent religious philosopher Joh...)

  • An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent, Second Edition

    ( In this classic work, prominent religious philosopher J...)

  • Evil and the God of Love

    (When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly ...)

  • Evil and the God of Love: With a Foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams

    (When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly ...)

  • Death and Eternal Life

    ( In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John H...)

  • God and the Universe of Faiths

    ( This accessible text tackles the major issues challengi...)

  • God Has Many Names

    ( A major revolution in thinking about religion is called...)

  • The Metaphor of God Incarnate: Christology in a Pluralistic Age (Paperback) - Common

    (In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the tradit...)

  • The Metaphor of God Incarnate

    ( In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the trad...)

  • Problems of Religious Pluralism

    (Format Paperback Publisher Basingstoke Macmillan 1985)

  • Faith and Knowledge

    (Book by Hick, John)

  • Evil and the God of Love by Emeritus Professor John Hick (2010-04-09)
  • God Has Many Names by John Hick (1982-01-01)
  • God and the Universe of Faiths GOD AND THE UNIVERSE OF FAITHS By Hick, John H ( Author )Nov-01-1994 Paperback
  • Faith and Knowledge: A Modern Introduction to the Problem of Religious Knowledge (Fontana Library of Theology and Philoso)
  • The Metaphor of God Incarnate
  • THE EVIL OF THE GOD OF LOVE
  • God and the Universe of Faiths

Membership

Chairman, president All Faiths for One Race, Birmingham, England, 1972-1973, 80-85. Member American Philosophical Association (emeritus), Society for Study and Religion (emeritus), Society for the Study of Theology United Kingdom (president 1975-1976), British Society for Philosophy of Religion (vice president), World Congress of Faith (vice president).

Connections

Married Joan Hazel Bowers, August 30, 1953 (deceased). Children: Eleanor, Mark, Peter, Michael (deceased).

Father:

Mark Day Hick

Mother:

Mary Aileen (Hirst) Hick

Spouse:

Joan Hazel Bowers

child:

Michael Hick (deceased)

child:

Eleanor Hick

child:

Peter Hick

child:

Mark Hick