Abstract
In this paper, the concepts of ‘the Real’ and ‘al-aqq’ employed by John Hick in his religious pluralism are examined. After briefly reviewing Hick's concept of the Real, it will be argued that the concept of God in Islam (conceived as Allah or al-
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Notes
And it is a question whether Hick, in so arguing, is guilty of committing the quantifier-shift fallacy. Surely, as Ward points out, from the premises that ‘I do not know what X is’ and ‘I do not know what Y is’ it does not follow that ‘X must be the same as Y’ (Ward, Citation1990, p. 113).
In the Islamic tradition Divine names are understood as Divine properties to the extent that they are, unlike ordinary names, descriptive of Divine nature.
Although whether God can be subject to sense perception, such as ‘seeing’, in the afterlife has been a controversial issue in Islamic theology.
Hick seems to have mistaken this verse (Q 6.100) for (Q 6.101). The relevant verse is the former.