Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Intellectual Biographies	1
	John Hick	2
	Seyyed Hossein Nasr	13
Ch. 2	Religion and Tradition	27
	The Origin of Religion	27
	Religion and Change	37
	The Sophia Perennis	43
	What is Tradition?	46
Ch. 3	Knowledge and the Ultimate	55
	The Religious 'Neutrality' of the Universe	55
	Religious Experience	61
	Religious Language	73
	Knowledge as Vision	77
	'Given Knowledge' or 'Gained Knowledge': Intellect and Reason	80
	Is God Knowable?	88
	To Know is to be Saved	93
Ch. 4	The Need for a Pluralistic Approach in Religion	98
	Globalization and Religion	98
	Religious Identity and Fortuity of 'Birth'	101
	Absolute Truth Claims of Religions	103
	The Diversity of Religions	107
	The Cultural Limits of Hick's Hypothesis of Religious Pluralism	110
	The Traditional Conception of Religions	114
	Secularisation Process and the Eclipse of the Sacred	118
	The Rediscovery of Tradition	123
	The Limits of the Traditional Outlook	128
Ch. 5	The Ultimate and Pluralism	130
	The Ineffable Deity	130
	Does the Real Possess any Qualities?	136
	The Real and the 'gods' of Religions	139
	Salvation as Transformation	147
	Some Critical Remarks on Hick's Hypothesis	150
	God as Reality	151
	The Ultimate in the Manifested Order	157
	The Absolute in Diverse Religious Forms	161
	An Assessment of Nasr's Account of Reality	168
Ch. 6	Christianity and Islam: Manifestations of the Ultimate	171
	Christianity and Pluralism	171
	A New Christology for a New World	175
	Hick's Perception of Islam	182
	Islam and Pluralism	186
	A Theoretical Framework for an 'Islamic Religious Pluralism'	187
	Historical Manifestation of the Principle of 'Islamic Pluralism'	196
	Islam and Modernity	200
	Christianity and Christ: A Muslim View	202
	Notes	207
App	Religions and the Concept of Ultimate	257
	Bibliography	274
	Index	286