Faith and Knowledge: A Modern Introduction To the Problem of Religious Knowledge, Second Edition

John Hick

Aug 2009 · Wipf and Stock Publishers

About this ebook

In this revision of his widely read study, John Hick has taken advantage of constructive comments on the first edition to make the book more useful. New material has been added and the overall structure of the volume has been changed to strengthen it both as an introduction to the problem of religious knowledge and as an exposition of the view of faith that seems to him most adequate. There is a new chapter on the Thomist-Catholic view of faith; a new treatment of the controversial notion of eschatological verification, taking account of various published critiques of the concept; and a new section on the way in which the Christian faith-awareness of God expresses itself in a distinctive way of life.

About the author

John Hick is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK, and an emeritus professor both of that university and of the Claremont Graduate University in California. He is an internationally read and discussed philosopher of religion, and his books having been translated into sixteen languages.