An Assessment of john Hick's Pluralism from Imam Khomeini's Point of View

The tolerance and leniency are social behaviors which occur in their own conceptual frameworks. Social pluralism based on religious knowledge and the theological pluralism of salvation is a kind of interpretation of tolerance and leniency which utilizes the modern philosophical grounds. By this approach, John hick, as a priest has attempted to give a new interpretation of Christianity in transition from historical definition of church. Explaining the interpretation of Imam Khomeini as the representative of traditional Islam this article reviews the John Hick’s theory on the basis of Imam Khomeini’s theoretical and cognitive basis.