In Who or What is God?, John Hick reflects on questions of the nature and the accessibility of God in the context of Christianity and other faith traditions.

The essays in this book cover a wide range of issues centred on the search for truth, and the search for justice and peace.The search for truth concerns the ultimate reality to which the world’s great religions point, involving discussion of religious experience, religious language, the relations between religions, life and death, and Christian belief.

A new collection of essays by one of the world’s most controversial theologians.

Who or what is God?
Mystical experience as cognition
The religious meaning of life
On being mortal
Reincarnation
Believable Christianity
Literal and metaphorical incarnation
The resurrection of Jesus
Is the doctrine of atonement a mistake?
Christianity and Islam
Apartheid observed (1980)
Is there a global ethic?
Mahatma Ghandi’s significance for today
The second form of the ontological argument

John Hick is an internationally read and discussed philosopher of religion and theologian. His many books have, between them, been translated into seventeen languages. More than twenty books have been published about his work in English, German, French, Chinese and Japanese.