This is a collection of John Hick's essays on the understanding of the world's religions as different human responses to the same ultimate transcendent reality. He is in dialogue with contemporary philosophers including Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, D. Z. Phillips; with Evangelicals; with the Vatican and other both Catholic and Protestant theologians. This book is alive with current argument for all those interested in contemporary philosophy of religion and theology. This reissue includes a new preface by the author and a foreword by Perry Schmidt-Leukel.