Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth - Softcover

Templeton, Sir John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890151912 ISBN 13: 9781890151911

Publisher: Templeton Press, 2002

Synopsis

Every religion acknowledges certain spiritual principles and records them in its sacred literature and traditions. This book curates these ancient teachings and shows how they apply to modern life with the help of parables, quotations, and commentaries.

By reading Wisdom from World Religions, people from all walks of life will be inspired to pursue their own spiritual growth and to contemplate questions central to our existence, such as how, through love and creativity, can we be agents of divinity on earth?

Uplifting and instructional, this is a book to be treasured, studied, and practiced.

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About the Author

As a pioneer in both financial investments and philanthropy, Sir John Templeton spent a lifetime encouraging open-mindedness. Templeton started his Wall Street career in 1937 and went on to create some of the world’s largest and most successful international investment funds, eventually earning the label of “arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century” from Money magazine. In 1972, he established the world’s largest annual award given to an individual: the £1,000,000 Templeton Prize. The Prize is intended to recognize exemplary achievement in work related to life’s spiritual dimension. Templeton also contributed a sizable amount of his fortune to the John Templeton Foundation, which he established in 1987. Templeton passed away in 2008, but the Foundation that bears his name continues to award millions of dollars in annual grants in pursuit of its mission to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for research on what scientists and philosophers call the “big questions.”

From Publishers Weekly

Templeton offers 200 spiritual "laws," nearly half of which are his own work, with the others coming from mostly Western sources (e.g., Benjamin Franklin, St. Gregory, Norman Vincent Peale) with a smattering of ideas from Hinduism and Buddhism. Templeton structures the motivational laws into weekday readings for 40 weeks, suggesting that the book be used as a school text during the academic year. Unfortunately, it is repetitive and too long by half (do we really need separate laws for "The tree is known by its fruits" and "You shall know them by their fruits"?). The attractive design, which surrounds each of Templeton's essays with additional quotations, cannot quite redeem this redundant digest of positive thinking. (Apr.)n
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Edition details

• Publisher: Templeton Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1890151912
• ISBN 13: 9781890151911
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400