Christianity and World Religions: Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism

Kung, Hans; Ess, Josef von; von Stietencron; Bechert, Heinz

ISBN 10: 0385194714 / ISBN 13: 9780385194716

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986

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Light crease on back corner, edges a bit rubbed. 1986 Trade Paperback. xix, 460 pp. Christianity and World Religions: Paths to Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism by Hans Kung, Josef van Ess, Heinrich von Stietencron, Heinz Bechert, Peter Heinegg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Christianity and World Religions: Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385194714
• ISBN 13: 9780385194716
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 23 ounces

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Synopsis

There is a significant connection between ecumenism and world peace. Anyone who feels a sense of obligation toward the world community, who takes seriously the fragility of all human arrangements, who has glimpsed the possibilities of technical and human error, must know what is at stake here. He must know that the threat to peace and the need to regulate it have long since burst through the dimensions of the specific, reginoal conflict, and have become global political problems on which the survival of us all depends. The most fanatical, the cruelest political struggles are those that have been colored, inspired, and legitimized by religion. To say this is not to reduce all political conflicts to religious ones, but to take seriously the fact that religions share in the responsibility for bringing peace to our torn and warring world.

Reviews

This book is based on a lecture series designed to increase understanding of four of the world's great religions. In particular, theologian Kung and his colleagues, all professors in their respective disciplines, hope to make non-Christian religions accessible to Christians. For each tradition, four basic issues are presented (e.g., "Man and Salvation in Hindu Religions," "Jesus in the Qur'an") and background information given. Kung then provides an enlightening Christian response that is critical, self-critical, and mutually clarifying. The result is highly recommended to libraries for its forthrightness, honesty, and reflection of the best contemporary religious scholarship. Carolyn Craft, English, Philosophy, & Modern Languages Dept., Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.
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