Accounting for religious diversity John Hick's pluralistic hypothesis and John Cobb's process pluralism

This study brings John Hick's pluralistic hypothesis into engagement with the process pluralism position developed by John B. Cobb Jr. and David Ray Griffin in the ongoing attempt to adequately account for the reality of religious truth-claim diversity. Despite numerous criticisms, Hick's position remains viable in its explanatory intentions, whereas Cobb's and Griffin's position is not, contrary to its self-perception, an improvement upon Hick's hypothesis. Moreover, Cobb's and Griffin's position is not properly pluralistic and is better modified for greater alignment with the lived traditions. The primary issue is one of coherence in relation to the positing of multiple ultimacy to account for truth divergence. However, a Whiteheadian epistemology offers a potentially fruitful way of understanding and arguing, not for the veracity of multiple ultimacy, but for the veracity of religious experience per se.