خلاصه ماشینی:
"Therefore the main purpose of this article is to present a new approach to the epistemological investigation and analysis of John Hick's theory of religious pluralism in which the theory is evaluated with four other approaches and bases.
John Hick (which I was informed of his death during the correction of this article) has made a great effort to present an epistemological explanation of the theory of religious pluralism in recent decades.
I have tried to investigate the main epistemological parameters and bases of the theory of religious pluralism in this article and will mention some of its results and implications.
The main purpose of this article is to prove this hypothesis: the epistemological foundation of Hick's theory of religious pluralism is affected by the theories of four scholars, i.
Although his effort to integrate and create coherency between these parameters is praiseworthy, but in fact analyzing this theory will reduce it to four parameters: the epistemological pattern of Kant, Wittgenstein's theory of seeing as, Schleiermacher's principle of religious experience and Gadamer's base of hermeneutics.
These bases, elaborated in his book "Al-Velayah", are discussed in this article and are as follows: the possibility of reaching to Malakoot (the Dominion of God), intuitional knowledge of the soul, tendency to saintship and being religious on the base of religion's apparent meaning and hidden meaning."