An Investigation into John Hick's Pluralism

John Hick’s theory of religious pluralism is an ontological pluralistic theory. According to this theory every religion per se is a valid path for human's approach to the ultimate reality. The God in all religions is realities for the followers of that religion while the reality per se has ineffable substantial and transcategorical properties. Hick's theory suffers a number of flaws. First, his theory as a second order analysis of religions is not regarded as a right analysis. Secondly, in rejecting naturalism he is caught in an epistemological circle. Thirdly in his theory the distinction among substantial and formal properties fade away. It seems that Hick, in arguing for the validity of all religions to connect human being to ultimate reality, has committed a category mistake.