John Hick Quotes
John Harwood Hick was a British philosopher of religion and one of the most influential religious thinkers of the late twentieth century. Trained at Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambridge, he held chairs at Birmingham and at the Claremont Graduate School in California. The quotes below are attributed to John Hick, organized by topic.
John Hick on God
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Attributed to John Hick:
“All the great religions are different responses to the same ultimate Reality.”
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Attributed to John Hick:
“Suffering is the matrix of soul-making.”
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Attributed to John Hick:
“Religious experience is the human encounter with the Real.”
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Attributed to John Hick:
“No religion can claim a monopoly on truth.”
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Attributed to John Hick:
“Faith is the interpretive element in religious experience.”