| Concepts of God: Images of the Divine in the Five Religious Traditions Edition, Revise Edition Contributor(s): Ward, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1851680640 ISBN-13: 9781851680641 Publisher: ONEWorld Publications OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: Using terms acceptable to each religious tradition, Professor Ward considers the doctrine of ultimate reality--God--within five world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. By closely studying a definitive, orthodox writer in each tradition, Ward builds a series of "pictures" of God and uncovers a common core of belief. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 211 |
| Series: Images of the Divine in Five Religious Traditions |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.36" W x 8.4" (0.51 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is there a universal concept of God? Do all the great faiths of the world share a vision of the same supreme reality? In an attempt to answer these questions, Keith Ward considers the doctrine of an ultimate reality within five world religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. He studies closely the works of definitive, orthodox writers from each tradition - Sankara, Ramanuja, Asvaghosa, Maimonides, Al-Ghazzali and Aquinas - to build up a series of 'images' of God, a common core of belief. Ward discovers that while the great religious traditions of the world retain their differences, there are convergences of thought at the deepest level, with a broad similarity of structure in concepts of God. He concludes that a recognition of these beliefs, as well as encouraging a clearer acceptance of the mystery of the divine, might also lead to an increase in understanding and tolerance of other faiths, to the enrichment of one's own. |
