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.
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St. John of Damascus (John Damascene) is the author of the "Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith" ("On the Orthodox Faith"), included in this volume. Standing among the greatest of the early Church fathers of the East during the patristic age, he produced his work The Fount of Knowledge as a summary of Christian philosophy and theology. Encompassing “The Philosophical Chapters,” “On Heresies,” and the justly-famous “Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith,” it is one of the most important works of the Greek patristic age—a veritable Summa of the doctrine of the Eastern fathers. This Ex Fontibus edition reprints the excellent twentieth-century translation by patristics scholars who contributed to a series published by Catholic University of America press. Published by Ex Fontibus Company.
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This book offers a revisionary account of key epistemological concepts and doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinas, particularly his concept of scientia (science). It proposes a new interpretation of the purpose and composition of Aquinas' most mature and influential work, the Summa theologiae, which has traditionally been regarded as a work for neophytes in theology. John Jenkins' comprehensive and original study will be of interest to readers in philosophy, theology and medieval studies.
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When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. It has continued to be at the center of discussions ever since. This reissue of the work includes a new preface by the author.
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This accessible text tackles the major issues challenging contemporary Christian belief to produce a controversial conception both of Christianity and of the wider religious life of humanity.
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In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John Hick draws upon major world religions, as well as biology, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to explore the mystery of death. He argues that scientific and philosophical objections to the idea of survival after death can be challenged, and he claims that human inadequacy in facing suffering supports the basic religious argument for immortality.
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A major revolution in thinking about religion is called for in this challenging work by theologian and religious philosopher John Hick. The author persuasively argues for a true religious pluralism, respectful of the non-Christian traditions that have persisted over time--Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam.
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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. For this Second Edition, Hick addresses the major critics of his interpretation of religion, thereby enabling fresh discussion of his work. Praise for the first edition: This book strengthens Hick’s position as one of the most significant thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. . . . I highly recommend [it] to students of philosophy, history of religions, and comparative studies, as well as theology.”Chester Gillis, Journal of Religion The most persuasive philosophical advocacy for religious pluralism ever written."Yandall Woodfin, Southwestern Journal of Theology [This work] evinces Hick’s many virtues: ingenuity; fairness toward all arguments; deference to the standards of analytic philosophy; familiarity with Eastern as well as Western religions; and, not least, a clean, clear prose.”Robert A. Segal, Christian Century A leader in interfaith interpretation of religion, Hick has written what will probably become a classic. . . . Clear, readable, and comprehensive.”Library Journal Should be read by the adherents of all faiths.”Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok
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In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the traditional Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth. According to Hick, Jesus did not teach what was to become the orthodox understanding of him: that he was God incarnate who became human to die for the sins of the world. Further, the traditional dogma of Jesus' two natures--human and divine--cannot be explained satisfactorily, and worse, it has been used to justify great human evils. Thus, the divine incarnation, he explains, is best understood metaphorically. Nevertheless, he concludes that Christians can still understand Jesus as Lord and the one who has made God real to us. This second edition includes new chapters on the Christologies of Anglican theologian John Macquarrie and Catholic theologian Roger Haight, SJ.
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In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the traditional Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth. According to Hick, Jesus did not teach what was to become the orthodox understanding of him: that he was God incarnate who became human to die for the sins of the world. Further, the traditional dogma of Jesus' two natures--human and divine--cannot be explained satisfactorily, and worse, it...
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Hick gives a personal account of how he has come to accept religious pluralism - that the major world faiths are different but equally valid responses to ultimate Reality. He considers how much Christians have to learn from Buddhism, discusses the ongoing dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and outlines a philosophy of religions - a conception of the relationship between world religions and between them and the ultimately Real. Finally he turns to the mystery of death and, using the resources of the world religions and of parapsychology, suggests a possible conception of life after death.
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Renowned theologian and philosopher of religion John Hick takes a hard look at an important intellectual problem facing Christians today: where exactly does Christianity fit into the scheme of the world in light of other world religions? And is it possible to remain Christian while accepting the truth of other beliefs? Offering good reasons for why the traditional stance that Christianity is the only true religion is no longer workable, Hick puts forth a cogent defense of Christianity in the global context of other religions.
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The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God’s existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God’s existence is haunted by "perhaps," which does not signify indecisiveness but an openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy, Caputo explores the materiality of perhaps and the promise of the world. He shows how perhaps can become a new theology of the gaps God opens.
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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 half of the twentieth century. . . . I highly recommend [it] to students of philosophy, history of religions, and comparative studies, as well as theology."-Chester Gillis, Journal of Religion "The most persuasive philosophical advocacy for religious pluralism ever written."-Yandall Woodfin, Southwestern Journal of Theology "[This work] evinces Hick's many virtues: ingenuity; fairness toward all arguments; deference to the standards of analytic philosophy; familiarity with Eastern as well as Western religions; and, not least, a clean, clear prose."-Robert A. Segal, Christian Century "A leader in interfaith interpretation of religion, Hick has written what will probably become a classic. . . . Clear, readable, and comprehensive."-Library Journal "Should be read by the adherents of all faiths."-Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok
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New examples of hierarchical regression, including quadratic trend, graphically illustrate shrinkage in estimates of individual slopes and curvatures. 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New to this Edition (partial list): • There are all new programs in JAGS and Stan. The new programs are designed to be much easier to use than the scripts in the first edition. In particular, there are now compact high-level scripts that make it easy to run the programs on your own data sets. This new programming was a major undertaking by itself. • The introductory Chapter 2, regarding the basic ideas of how Bayesian inference re-allocates credibility across possibilities, is completely rewritten and greatly expanded. • There are completely new chapters on the programming languages R (Ch. 3), JAGS (Ch. 8), and Stan (Ch. 14). The lengthy new chapter on R includes explanations of data files and structures such as lists and data frames, along with several utility functions. (It also has a new poem that I am particularly pleased with.) The new chapter on JAGS includes explanation of the RunJAGS package which executes JAGS on parallel computer cores. The new chapter on Stan provides a novel explanation of the concepts of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. The chapter on Stan also explains conceptual differences in program flow between it and JAGS. • Chapter 5 on Bayes’ rule is greatly revised, with a new emphasis on how Bayes’ rule re-allocates credibility across parameter values from prior to posterior. The material on model comparison has been removed from all the early chapters and integrated into a compact presentation in Chapter 10. • What were two separate chapters on the Metropolis algorithm and Gibbs sampling have been consolidated into a single chapter on MCMC methods (as Chapter 7). There is extensive new material on MCMC convergence diagnostics in Chapters 7 and 8. There are explanations of autocorrelation and effective sample size. There is also exploration of the stability of the estimates of the HDI limits. New computer programs display the diagnostics, as well. • Chapter 9 on hierarchical models includes extensive new and unique material on the crucial concept of shrinkage, along with new examples. • All the material on model comparison, which was spread across various chapters in the first edition, in now consolidated into a single focused chapter (Ch. 10) that emphasizes its conceptualization as a case of hierarchical modeling. • Chapter 11 on null hypothesis significance testing is extensively revised. It has new material for introducing the concept of sampling distribution. 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New examples of hierarchical regression, including quadratic trend, graphically illustrate shrinkage in estimates of individual slopes and curvatures. The use of weighted data is also illustrated. • Chapter 18, on multiple linear regression, includes a new section on Bayesian variable selection, in which various candidate predictors are probabilistically included in the regression model. • Chapter 19, on one-factor ANOVA-like analysis, has all new examples, including a completely worked out example analogous to analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), and a new example involving heterogeneous variances. • Chapter 20, on multi-factor ANOVA-like analysis, has all new examples, including a completely worked out example of a split-plot design that involves a combination of a within-subjects factor and a between-subjects factor. • Chapter 21, on logistic regression, is expanded to include examples of robust logistic regression, and examples with nominal predictors. • There is a completely new chapter (Ch. 22) on multinomial logistic regression. 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educator philosopher theologian
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.
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.
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.
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Author: Faith and Knowledge, 1957, second edition, 1966, Philosophy of Religion, 1963, 4th edition, 1990, Evil and the God of Love, 1966, second edition, 1977, God and the Universe of Faiths, 1973, Death and Eternal Life, 1976, God Has Many Names, 1980, Problems of Religious Pluralism, 1985, An Interpretation of Religion, 1989, The Metaphor of God Incarnate, 1993, Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion, 1993, A Christian Theology of Religions, 1995.
Hick, who has been one of the major philosophers °f religion of the past thirty years, has written •nfluentially on many important issues in the subject, such as the nature of religious language, (he rationality of religious belief, the problem of ev'l, and death and the idea of an after-life. His most radical proposal has been that the great "’Grid religions constitute different human responses, formed by their own conceptual schemas, to a single ultimate reality. He uses a basically Kantian epistemology, distinguishing between, °n the one hand, the noumenal Real which, (ranscending all huITlan concepts is beyond human experience, and, °n the other hand, the range of experienceable divine phenomena.
These phenomena are the various personae of the ultimately Real and its personae.
1 he doctrines of the different religions thus refer to different manifestations of the ultimately Real, formed jointly by the presence of the Real and the varieties of human religious mentalities. Their doctrines may be literally true of the personae or impersonae to which they refer, but only mythologically true of the Real in itself—their mythological truth consisting in their capacity to evoke an appropriate response to that to which they ultimately refer. There is, however, something common to the great religions: the centrality of the salvific transformation of human existence from self-centredness to an orientation centred in the Real.
The practical implication of this is that interfaith dialogue should proceed on the basis of full mutual acceptance in which the traditional separate claims to unique superiority have been abandoned.
In the case of Christianity, for instance. Hick recommends that the doctrine of the divine incarnation should be regarded as mythologically rather than literally true. In his work on the ‘problem of evil'.
Hick has argued that the problem can be solved by thinking of the afflictions of this world as necessary if it is to serve as a ‘vale of soul making’.
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).
Married Joan Hazel Bowers, August 30, 1953 (deceased). Children: Eleanor, Mark, Peter, Michael (deceased).