Citation Information for
“John Hick, ‘Allowing for Evil’”
Philosophy of Religion
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Citation Information for
“John Hick, ‘Allowing for Evil’”
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“The most limiting experience that we know is pain. If pain reaches
to the center of the universe, we have seriously limited God. And if God
does not share our pain, God is even more limited.”
Francis J. McConnell, Is God Limited? (New York Abingdon Press, 1924), 11.
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