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Title: Is Jesus the Only Savior? by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0-310-44391-1 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 24 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good, but could have been better
Comment: This effort by Ron Nash is good and worth reading. There are a number of very good things about this book, but there are also a couple of things about it that in my view, do not warrant a five star rating.
Nash attempts to argue in favor of an exclusivist view of salvation mostly by trying to present negative aspects of both the pluralist and inclusivist views. He therefore devotes the first part of the book to critiquing the pluralism of John Hick, and the second part to critiquing the inclusivism of Pinnock and Sanders.
His critique of Hick's pluralism was easily the best part of the book. Nash methodically analyzes the pluralism of John Hick and by the end of the critique, the reader is left with the impression that Hick's pluralism has been thoroughly discredited not only on intellectual grounds, but on emotional ones as well. As in his other writings, one of Nash's analytical strengths is his insistence on quoting from relevant sources at length. Nash dedicates a significant part of the pluralist section on quoting from John Hick and letting Hick's own words be the basis for Nash's analysis. Nash's conclusions about Hick's philosophy and the ramifications thereof become all the more convincing as a result.
In my own view, I cannot say that Nash had the same level of success in analyzing inclusivism in section 2 as he had with demonstrating the falsity of pluralism in section 1. It's not that this section is bad, because it isn't, there is a lot about his analysis that is good, particularly his analysis of PME and how Pinnock's embrace of it totally contradicts the inclusivist worldview that Pinnock also embraces. But particularly in his analyses of the Scriptural reference that inclusivists often use to support their worldview, I felt that Nash's critique was too summary oriented and not sufficiently detailed to mount a convincing case against inclusivism. To his credit, I thought that Nash did a good job in the very last chapter of rescuing his exclusivism argument a bit, but I still felt that his analysis of inclusivism needed to be more detailed in order for him to effectively demonstrate what he was trying to demonstrate.
The one other negative aspect of the book, in my opinion, is that Nash does not present a positive case for exclusivism. His argument for exclusivism is based almost completely on negatively critiquing pluralism and inclusivism. And while these critiques certainly needed to be done in order to demonstrate that these worldviews run into big intellectual and emotional problems when thoroughly thought through, Nash nonetheless should have put forth a positive defense of exclusivism in order for this book to truly achieve its mission. This absence, coupled with what I believed to be the too top level nature of his Scriptural critique of inclusivism, persuade me to give the book 4 stars instead of 5. Having said that, his critique of pluralism is top grade, and even his critique of inclusivism, while not perfect, still produces lucid arguments and comments that are worthy of being read, in my opinion.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is back in print
Comment: This book is back in print and is readily available from its original publisher, Zondervan Publishing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The book is perhaps the major work that critiques the opinions of pluralists like John Hick and inclusivists such as Clark Pinnock. It defends the claim that Jesus IS the only Savior.
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Title: No Doubt About It: The Case for Christianity by Winfried Corduan ISBN: 0805416471 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: What About Those Who Have Never Heard?: Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized by Gabriel Fackre, Ronald H. Nash, John Sanders ISBN: 0830816062 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: I'm Glad You Asked by Kenneth Boa, Larry Moody ISBN: 1564763870 Publisher: Chariot Victor Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer, James W. Sire ISBN: 0830819479 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: No Other Name: An Investigation into the Destiny of the Unevangelized by John Sanders ISBN: 0802806155 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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