{"id":9944,"date":"2012-02-14T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/john-hick\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T05:22:48","slug":"john-hick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/john-hick\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">John Hick has negotiated that mysterious transition that awaits us all.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/blog\/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&amp;entry_id=4922\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is one take on his passing.&#0160; I saw him in action only once.&#0160; I recall him questioning whether Jesus ever claimed to be God.&#0160; An ill-mannered colleague of mine attacked him for that, churlishly.&#0160; Hick retained his equaninimity, projecting a superiority that was yet without a trace of superciliousness.&#0160; That impressed me and furnished&#0160;me with yet another insight into the hierarchy of the spirit and the inequality of human beings.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Hick&#39;s <em>An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent<\/em>&#0160;is required reading for philosophers of religion.&#0160; I have two posts on Hick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/06\/john-hick-on-religious-and-naturalistic-definitions-of-religion.html\" target=\"_self\">John Hick on Religious and Naturalistic Definitions of Religion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/09\/no-provision-in-islam-for-mosque-state-separation.html\" target=\"_self\">No Provision in Islam for Mosque-State Separation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hick has negotiated that mysterious transition that awaits us all.&#0160; Here is one take on his passing.&#0160; I saw him in action only once.&#0160; I recall him questioning whether Jesus ever claimed to be God.&#0160; An ill-mannered colleague of mine attacked him for that, churlishly.&#0160; Hick retained his equaninimity, projecting a superiority that was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/john-hick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Hick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}