Conrad L. Neudorf and John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis

Abstract

This article analyses the book of the Canadian evangelical pastor Conrad L. Neudorf “Truth Is Not Plural: A Response to The Exclusive Pluralism of John Hick” published in 2017, in which a traditionalist Christian response is suggested to one of the most famous and influential Western philosophers of religion in the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Neudorf sees the ground of his work in the undoubted importance of the British thinker, whose philosophical and religious views posed a serious challenge to the world religions and, especially, Christianity. On the basis of his designated theological proposition Neudorf leads the reader through the main stages of the development of John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis intending to demonstrate its explicit precariousness against the background of the New Testament theology as well as the experience of the early Church.