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Concerning ‘Eschatological Verification Reconsidered’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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John Hick's eschatological verification has continued to receive attention for twenty-five years. I would like to focus here on the changes in Hick's concept of eschatological verification in ‘Eschatological Verification Reconsidered’ the implications of these changes for eschatological verification, and how these changes illustrate problem areas for Hick's theology.
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page 129 note 1 Hick, John, ‘Eschatological Verification Reconsidered’, Religious Studies, XIII (06 1977).Google Scholar
page 129 note 2 Hick, John, Faith and Knowledge, 2nd. ed. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966), 160–99.Google Scholar See also Ayer, Alfred Jules, Language, Truth and Logic (New York: Dover Publications, 1952);Google Scholar and Hick, , ‘Eschatological Verification Reconsidered’, pp. 192, 194.Google Scholar
page 129 note 3 Hick, , Faith and Knowledge, 2nd. ed., p. 178.Google Scholar
page 130 note 1 Ibid. p. 187. There is a kind of literalness in the expectation evoked by the journey parable in Hick's eschatological verification and his descriptions of post-mortem lives in other worlds in Death and Eternal Life (New York: Harper and Row, 1976) which seems strange at times, but itself presents no particular theological problems.
page 130 note 2 Ibid. pp. 198–9.
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page 131 note 1 Ibid. p. 195.
page 131 note 2 Ibid. pp. 196–7.
page 131 note 3 Ibid. p. 199.
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page 133 note 1 Ibid. p. 196.
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