Abstract
I am impressed by the seriousness and depth of Hick’s concern with the question of truth in the face of the different, and at times apparently conflicting, truth claims of the great world religions. On the one hand, he takes seriously the idea that the conceptions of the Ultimate embodied in these faiths are different but can still lay some claim to truth. On the other hand, precisely because he takes the question of truth seriously, he does not lapse into an easy and self-defeating relativism. He therefore offers a hypothesis that ‘there are a plurality of impersonae as well as personae of the Real. None of these is Real an sich; but each of them is the Real as it affects a particular stream of religious consciousness’. I have a number of difficulties with this suggestion, which I shall state in very summary form.
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