biography
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Hick, John (Harwood)
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Theologian and philosopher of religion, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of England in 1953. After a long teaching career in the USA and Cambridge, he held professorships in Birmingham (1967–82) and at Claremont Graduate School, CA (1979–92, now emeritus). He has produced several standard textbooks and anthologies in the philosophy of religion, and has questioned the status of Christianity among the world religions in such works as God and the Universe of Faiths (1973) and The Myth of God Incarnate (1977). Later works include Problems of Religious Pluralism (1985) and The Rainbow of Faiths (1995). |
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