assessment of John Hick's principles in explaining the different conception of God

John Hick, a contemporary philosopher of analytical philosophy of religion, discusses about the reasons for the existence of different conceptions of God and impossibility of accessing the concept of God, which is reviewed in the present paper. First, the paper mentions the differentiation between the concept of God and conception of God, and basic features of different conceptions of God, based on Hick's principles, i.e. differentiation between Kant's noumen and phenumen, New Wittgenstein's "seeing as", and ineffability of God. Then it proves that Kant's differentiation can only help us to justify the differentiation between the concept of God and conception of God, not to defend accessibility of the concept of God, because there is no way to grasp the noumen of God, according to such differentiation. Furthermore, there is no pure experience to help us to talk about the concept of God; rather, we always have some conceptions of God, based on New Wittgenstein's view. God's ineffability also multiplies the problem of our experience of Him and causes different conceptions of God. Finally, the paper refers to the results of Hick's view such as his success in differentiating between the concept of God and conception of God, justifying the existence of different conceptions of God, opening a way to criticize and study Christian teachings, defending religious plurality, and his approximation to the panentheistic conception of God.