The Sun or a Planet?

An important representative of the pluralist position has been the British Protestant theologian John Hick, an unusually prolific and articulate writer. Hick has hit on a very graphic metaphor: He calls for a “Copernican revolution” in our thinking about religion. Christians have traditionally thought of their faiths the center around which everything else in the world is circling.

They now should think of their faith, advises Hick, as one of many planets circling around the sun of absolute truth—a truth that remains inaccessible to us in its fullness, which we can grasp only…