Encountering Universalism

Encountering page 364.

From my PhD work, John Hick did support Universalism within his soul making theodicy.

PhD, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, 2010: Theodicy and Practical Theology

If there was little or no evidence from an individual’s life of a disposition towards God while they were alive, Phillips in Davis (2001: 58); then why should it be accepted that there will be a change in attitude after death? Phillips in Davis (2001: 58). The philosophical assumption of universalism appears very speculative on Hick’s part. Hick in Davis (2001: 51).

ELWELL, WALTER AND YARBROUGH, ROBERT W., Third Edition (2013) Encountering The New Testament, Grand Rapids, Baker Academic. HICK, JOHN (1970) Evil and The God of Love, London, The Fontana Library.

HICK, JOHN (1978) ‘Present and Future Life’, Harvard Theological Review, Volume 71, Number 1-2, January-April, Harvard University.

HICK, JOHN (1981) Encountering Evil, Stephen T. Davis (ed.), Atlanta, John Knox Press.

HICK, JOHN (1993) ‘Afterword’ in GEIVETT, R. DOUGLAS (1993) Evil and the Evidence for God, Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

HICK, JOHN (1993) The Metaphor of God Incarnate, Louisville, Kentucky, John Know Press. 

HICK, JOHN (1994) Death and Eternal Life, Louisville, Kentucky, John Knox Press.

HICK, JOHN (1999) ‘Life after Death’, in Alan Richardson and John Bowden (eds.), A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Kent, SCM Press.

PHILLIPS, D.Z. (1981) Encountering Evil, Stephen T. Davis (ed.), Atlanta, John Knox Press.

PHILLIPS, D.Z. (2005) The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God, Fortress Press, Minneapolis.

The nail or like that punctured my tire today. The tires were scheduled for replacement, Tuesday, anyway.