A Spiritual Perspective: Where the World's Religions Disagree, They Agree, and What Stands Beneath Both

Most of us know one spiritual tradition from the inside and the rest only by rumor. A Spiritual Perspective sets the deepest answers of the world's great traditions side by side - in their own words - to see clearly where they part ways, where they quietly > It is built directly on nineteen primary sources, read firsthand: the Hebrew Bible (in both a Christian and a Jewish translation), the New Testament, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-gita and the reference works of Hinduism, the foundational teachings of Buddhism, the Tao Te Ching, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and serious studies of Greek, pagan, and folk religion. > Part One works through thirty questions every tradition has had to answer - what the divine is, where the cosmos came from, what a person is, what becomes of us at death, how we are saved or freed, and on through worship, scripture, authority, ethics, gender, the unseen world, and the end of time - and names the real disagreement at the heart of each. Part Two traces the surprising shared floor that survives all that division: a common sense of how to live, how to treat the stranger and the poor, what to hold sacred, how to seek wisdom. Part Three steps forward, in the author's own voice, to offer one quiet place to stand beneath both - not a > For any reader - of one faith, of many, or of none - willing to look at each tradition long enough, and fairly enough, to see it as the people who live inside it do.

Pagina's: 412, Paperback, Independently published