Different denominations

• Conventional Christians 


  • teaches that humans live ONE life, die and then judged
  • Hick's idea that there are other lives beyond death goes against this teaching
• Even liberal christians see Hick's universalism as something separate from christianity
• Roman Catholics

  • Hick is mistaken when he dismisses the importance of specific beliefs and practises and the uniqueness of truth revealed through the church's teachings
  • His writings and ideas are complex and appeal more to scholars and theologians
• Islam and Judaism 


  • depend on specific truth-claims about God's nature
  • Hick's view that religion depends on self-transformation is wrong
• Islam, Christianity and Judaism 


  • Hick challenges the claim of each faith to be the one true faith