Climbing the foothills of understanding

John Hick

pp. 76-97

in: Jon R. Stone (ed), The craft of religious studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

The particular sub-division of the wide field of religious studies in which I have worked is the philosophy of religion. During the past 40 years the subject has changed considerably in both its scope and its internal variety. I have been conscious of this particularly in producing revised editions of my small students' text on the philosophy of religion in Prentice-Hall's Foundations of Philosophy series, the first edition appearing in 1963 and the fourth in 1990.