Christianity and The World Religions: Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism by Hans Kung, Josef Van Ess, Heinrich Von Stietencron & Heinz Bechert soon to be presented for sale on the terrific BookLovers of Bath web site!
Published: London: Collins, 1987, Hardback in dust wrapper.
From the cover: There are 4. 9 billion people living on this earth, and of these, 1. 4 billion are nominally Christian exactly one third of the worlds population. That compares with 723 million Muslims, 583 million Hindus, and 274 million Buddhists.
Whether I am a Christian or a non-Christian, what is my attitude towards these other religions? That question is becoming ever more urgent, since not only the geographical horizon of our religious world but its historical horizon as well have expanded enormously. In a world so closely knit together, the old religious boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred, and we find large numbers of people with different faiths even in our own country, in our home town, in our factories and schools, often in our street. What indeed is my attitude towards these other religions?
Conversation between Christianity and Islam, Christianity and Hinduism, and Christianity and Buddhism had not been going on in earnest until this century. This book is an attempt to draw up something like an interim balance sheet of the twentieth-century conversation, in order to stimulate further discussion, and indeed to make us consider afresh what religion really is
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper.
Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XIX] 460 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.
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