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My name id professor Julius Lipner and I'm Professor of Hinduism and Comparative study
of Religion at the University of Cambrige. I've been there for thirty seven years, but
my first appointment was here at the University of Birmingham where I was a colleague of
John Hick. He was a sort of mentor to me. He was not only a colleague but a conversation
companion. He was interested in the subjects I'm interested
in because he was getting into that phase and his thought and the
paradigms he generated all those years ago, about fourty years ago now, have profoundly
affected me. I don't necessarily agree with all that he
says and I have discagreed with him in print on occasion, but he has
forced me and so many other people to rethink some of our ideas in a way that has become
more inclusive and more receptive of people of other faiths and I
have ploughed this into my work in such a way that I think I'm quite a
different person thought wise from what I was when I first met him. So I am immensely
grateful to him for his thinking, for his ideas, the way he has influenced my
own thought for the better and for the tremendous legacy he's left behind in
the area of the philosophy or Religion, inter-Religious understanding and inter-Religious dialogue.
We are all extremely grateful to him.