Unto the Churches: Jesus Christ, Christianity and the Edgar Cayce Readings - Softcover

Drummond, Richard Henry

9780876041024: Unto the Churches: Jesus Christ, Christianity and the Edgar Cayce Readings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876041020 ISBN 13: 9780876041024

Publisher: Are Pr, 1996

Drummond, a professor of religion at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, offers theological interpretation of the birth, preparation, and ministry of Jesus, His resurrection and ascension, His abiding presence, and the Second Coming.

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About the Author:

Richard Henry Drummond, Ph.D., is Professor of Comparative Religions, Emeritus, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.). He is the author of many articles and four books, A History of Christianity in Japan, Gautama the Buddha, Unto the Churches, and A Broader Vision. The second of these has been translated into Dutch and the third into Japanese. Dr. Drummond was born and reared in California, received his B.A. (with highest honors) and M.A. from U.C.L.A., his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Classics. He took post-doctoral work at Gettysburg Theological Seminary and San Francisco Theological Seminary at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Tokyo School of the Japanese Language. He served fifteen years in Japan as a field and educational missionary, teaching at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo Union Theological Seminary, and International Christian University. His in-depth studies and personal experiences of both Western and Eastern religious traditions have given him unusual qualifications to work on the growing edge of Christian theology in this pluralistic age.

Review:

"Drummond's book ... makes available a rich and fascinating account of Christ that should enlarge the horizons of our imagination and thought." -- John B. Cobb, Jr., Ingraham Professor of Theology, School of Theology at Claremont

"This is a milestone book. Because of the author's rigorous historical and theological scholarship, and his sensitive grasp of Christian Faith in today's world, it presents the main body of Cayce's religious thought in a way which makes it available for the first time for serious evaluation by theologians, pastors, and thoughtful lay persons. ... Drummond proceeds, step by step, with the seemingly farseeing Cayce at his side, through each stage of Jesus' life and ministry, passion and resurrection (not forgetting the thorny question of the Second Coming), and creates for the reader a sense of excitement at confronting afresh Magdalen and Nicodemus, Peter and Pilate, the transfiguration and the crucifixion, healings and commissions, until the imagination ignites with a sense of immediacy about the very clothes and conversations of the time. ... It is clearly the one book to read and to share for those who would examine Cayce in the categories and the longings, the hope and commitments which mark mainstream Christian Faith." -- Harmon H. Bro, Ph.D., theologian and psychotherapist

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