Assessment's of Hick's views

• Criticisms:

  His claim that apparent incompatibilities between religions are insignificant is not a valid one. The views and practices of some religious groups (e.g. of suicide cults or the Islamic State) seem totally incompatible with those of any mainstream religion or society
• Criticisms:

  Christianity traditionally thinks in terms of life, death, judgement and final state. Hick's idea of future states of existence after death does not fit in with this, so many Christians would reject it. The concept of universalism is unacceptable to evangelical Protestants, though acceptable to some liberal Protestants
• Criticisms:

  Most religions reject the view that religion is about self-transformation rather than the quest for truth
• Promotes interfaith and interdenominational relations:

  His views about the cultural links between individuals and their religion encourage people to think about the one-ness of human religious understanding and not just about the differences between religions
• Promotes interfaith and interdenominational relations:

  His views on the nature of religion and on universalism could strengthen interfaith and interdenominational relations
• Universalism= the view promoted by John Hick that all humans will be saved by God