Books in print:

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• EVIL AND THE GOD OF LOVE, London: Macmillan/Palgrave Press, 2nd ed. reissue 1985, reprinted 2001.

The book which established the Irenaean as distinguished from the Augustinian response to the problem of evil.

“the most considerable [book] on the problem of evil to appear in English for a generation” (Theology)

“a masterly book which is bound to become a standard work” (View Review)

“the most exciting work of its kind that I have read for several years” (Sunday Times)

“a major contribution to the discussion of theodicy” (Times Literary Supplement)

“I do not know of any contemporary work which deals with the philosophy of religion so thoroughly or so profoundly” (Catholic Herald)

• DEATH AND ETERNAL LIFE, London: Macmillan, 1976, reissue 1984, and Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994.

Discusses the contributions of biology, psychology, parapsychology, sociology and philosophy, and the insights of the Christian, Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and offers an hypothesis about a continuation beyond this life of human moral and spiritual growth. (Trans. Dutch)

“Wonderfully informative, bold in generalization, and unabashed in demythologising . . A seminal work, one destined to influence all similar studies for many years to come” (News Review of Books and Religion)

“Though Death and Eternal Life is patently a work of deep scholarship, possibly a landmark study, the general reader will also find it a useful compendium of world religions and philosophies” (Publishers Weekly)

“A comprehensive evaluation of the theoretical options, Death and Eternal Life is a considerable achievement, a successful experiment in ‘global theology’, and likely the standard philosophical discussion of the subject for some time to come” (Kirkus Reviews)

• PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 4th ed. 1990.

Very widely used introduction to the philosophy of religion, in the Foundations of Philosophy series, covering the concept of God; arguments for and against the existence of God; the problem of evil; revelation and faith; evidentialism, foundationalism, and rational belief; religious language; the problem of verification; the conflicting truth claims of different religions; immortality and resurrection; karma and reincarnation. (Trans. Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Persian)

• DISPUTED QUESTIONS IN THEOLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, London: Macmillan, and Cambridge, Mass: Yale University Press, 1993.

Part I, Epistemological, on religious realism and non-realism, and on the nature and validity of religious experience. Part II, Christ and Christianity, on an inspiration Christology, the logic of God incarnate, and the non-absoluteness of Christianity. Part III, Hints from Buddhism, on the doctrine of the undetermined questions, and religion as ‘skilful means’. Part IV, Religious Pluralism, on Jews, Christians and Muslims – do we all worship the same God?, on the Real and its personae and impersonae, and an autobiographical note about how the author was led to his position by experience of people of other faiths. Part V, Life and Death, on a possible conception of life after death.

“Profoundly substantive. The author . . [addresses] the most fundamental questions in the field of religion today . . [and] offers a genuinely exciting challenge to explore the potential reaches of authentic spirituality . . Certain to be a major contribution” (Journal of Psychology and Christianity).

“A finely wrought inquiry into the nature and meaning of religious belief” (America).

“Few readers will fail to have their vision of the religious landscape changed by this stimulating, challenging study from a foremost scholar” (Choice).

“Hick’s interpretations are plausible and controversial. His book is original, sound, readable, and important” (Prof. Ninian Smart).

• GOD AND THE UNIVERSE OF FAITHS, London: Macmillan, 1973, reissued Oxford: One World, 1993.

The book which launched the contemporary pluralist understanding of the world faiths. The Ptolemaic view was that our earth is the centre of the universe, and Ptolemaic theology holds that the Christian revelation is at the centre of the universe of faiths. The Copernican revolution placed the sun at the centre with our earth as one of the planets revolving round it, and the equivalent revolution in religious thinking sees God, or the Ultimate, at the centre with Christianity as one of the worlds of faith revolving round it. The book also discusses religion as fact-asserting, the problem of evil, God as necessary being, Christ and incarnation, and a theology of death.

“God and the Universe of Faiths shows John Hick’s mind at work on the most important theological problems of our time. Readers will appreciate an introduction to a mind which is clear, calm, honest, learned, modern and Christian. He has become one of the world’s most interesting theologians” (Church Times).

“Among modern writers on theology and the philosophy of religion he is one of our wisest guides. His concerns seem to be with issues which raise real problems in the life of thoughtful Christians. A book with a great deal of cohesion and completeness” (Expository Times).

• A JOHN HICK READER, edited by Paul Badham, London: Macmillan, 1990.

A representative selection of ten articles, with an introductory essay by Professor Paul Badham on “The Philosophical Theology of John Hick”.

• WHY BELIEVE IN GOD? by Michael Goulder and John Hick, London: SCM Press, 1983, reissued 1994.

A lively debate between an atheist and a religious believer.

• ClLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, edited by John Hick, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964, 2nd ed. 1970, 3rd ed. 1990.

Selections, with introductory notes, by Plato, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, James, Troeltsch, Russell, Buber, Tillich, Wittgenstein, Hartshorne, Price, Braithwaite, Randall, Wisdom, Malcolm, Flew, Hick, McFague, Alston, Plantinga.

• THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, edited, with an Introduction, by John Hick, New York: Macmillan, 1964 and frequently reprinted.

Covers the ontological, cosmological, teleological and moral arguments and argument from religious experience; discussions by Russell, Copleston, Feuerbach, Baillie, Kierkegaard; the falsification debate; the logic of ‘God’. Bibliography.

• CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS, edited by John Hick and Brian Hebblethwaite, 1st ed. 1980, 2nd ed., Oxford: One World, 2000.

Readings from Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Vatican II, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Aloysius Pieris, Lesslie Newbigin, Hans Kung, Paul Knitter, John Hick, Jurgen Moltmann, Pope John Paul II. Full bibliography of the subject.

• GANDHI'S SIGNIFICANCE FOR TODAY, edited by John Hick and Lamont Hempel, London: Macmillan, 1989.

Contributions by Lamont Hempel, James Gould, Paul Mundschenk, Mark Jurgensmeyer, Arvind Sharma, James Hunt, John Hick, Rex Ambler, Steven Smith, Raghavan Iyer, Kees Bolle, Margaret Chatterjee, Elton Hall, Sugata Dasgupta, Geoffrey Ostergaard, Sushila Gitwani, Thomas Kilgrove, and Ashis Nandy.