dreams, and fears cannot always be accommodated by rationality. One is brought back to a wish for transcendence, irrespective of its religious manifestations.
2a. Hick likens dogmatic Christian theology to the Ptolemaic cosmology, which put the earth at the center of the universe and to which the Church itself lent its authority for centuries. A Copernican revolution in Christian theology involves rethinking theology altogether so that Christianity is not at the center of the spiritual universe. In other words, Christianity should not be the only basis for interpreting or explaining other religions. Similarly, other religions cannot be explained away in terms of how well or ill it fits the Christian paradigm. A Copernican theological revolution would oblige Christians to reject dogmatic partiality in favor of theological pluralism.
2b. The fact of religious pluralism can be understood in historical terms with reference to cultural pluralism around the world. Citing the so-called Axial period of religions, Hick describes the confluence of four great
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