Abstract
John Hick’s pluralism is one of the most debated position in the philosophy of religion; this original philosophical perspective is a third way, distinct from the exclusivist view and from the inclusivist one, aimed at founding an authentic encounter among religious traditions. The purpose of this paper is to show a problematic aspect concerning the relationship between soteriology and the ineffability of the Ultimate Reality in Hick’s pluralism. The presence of different soteriological paths in the great world traditions is brought back to unity thanks to the reference to the Ultimate Reality, considered the condition of possibility of any religious experience and the unique centre which all various salvific paths tend towards. However, the ineffable nature of this Reality jeopardises the soteriological processes since they are grounded on and directed towards an unknowable, transcategorial Ulteriority belonging to an onto-ethical dimension that is immensely distant from human religious experiences.
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