World Religions : A Sourcebook for Students of Christian Theology
by Viladesau, Richard; Massa, MarkFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-05-01
Publisher(s): Paulist Pr
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Summary
Appropriate for college theology students or inquiring general readers, this anthology presents a concise history of Christian stances on other forms of belief and brief introductions to and excerpts from significant writings of the sacred books of the great world religious traditions.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| To the Instructor | p. 1 |
| To the Student | p. 5 |
| The Church and Other Believers | p. 9 |
| Christianity and the Religions | p. 16 |
| Religion as Unbelief | p. 18 |
| The Church and Non-Christian Religions | p. 21 |
| Hinduism | p. 26 |
| The Philosophical Tradition: Selections from the Upanishads | |
| What Comes After Death? | p. 29 |
| Brahman as the Source of the World | p. 35 |
| The Nature of the Absolute (Brahman) | p. 36 |
| "That Art Thou" | p. 40 |
| The Way of Devotion | |
| Love of the Lord Krishna | p. 43 |
| The Worship of the Divine Mother | p. 62 |
| Buddhism | p. 64 |
| The Essence of the Tradition | |
| The Life and Enlightenment of Buddha | p. 68 |
| The Testament and Death of Buddha | p. 80 |
| The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path | p. 82 |
| The Path of Dhamma | p. 85 |
| Useless Questions | p. 88 |
| The Doctrine of No-Self | p. 90 |
| The Expansion of the Tradition: Mahayana | |
| The Superiority of the Mahayana: The Parable of the Lost Son | p. 95 |
| Buddha as the Eternal Lord | p. 101 |
| The Power and Compassion of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara | p. 107 |
| Wisdom: The Way of Emptiness | p. 108 |
| Zen | p. 111 |
| The Tantric Way | p. 113 |
| Confucianism and Taoism | p. 118 |
| The Ethical Tradition: Kung Fu Tse and His Followers | |
| The Superior Person | p. 122 |
| The Way to Universal Order | p. 128 |
| Harmony: The Doctrine of the Mean | p. 129 |
| Love Toward All | p. 131 |
| The Mystical Tradition: Taoism | |
| The Nameless Way and Its Virtue | p. 134 |
| True Humanity | p. 146 |
| Zoroastrianism | p. 158 |
| The Religion of Zarathushtra | |
| Zarathushtra Questions God | p. 161 |
| The Two Spirits | p. 164 |
| The Names of God | p. 166 |
| Classical Zoroastrianism: Ontological Dualism | |
| The Zoroastrian "Genesis" | p. 169 |
| The Resurrection and Last Judgment | p. 175 |
| Post-Classical Judaism | p. 180 |
| Interpretation | |
| The Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and the Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism | p. 182 |
| The Talmud and the Oral Tradition of Post-Biblical Judaism | p. 197 |
| Mysticism and Reform | |
| Maimonides and Medieval Judaism | p. 210 |
| Mysticism and the Cabala | p. 216 |
| Contemporary Judaism | |
| The Holocaust and the "Silence of God" | p. 233 |
| Islam | p. 242 |
| Scripture | |
| The Written Revelation: The Holy Qur'an | p. 245 |
| Islamic Spirituality and Sects | |
| Sufism and Islamic Spirituality | p. 263 |
| The Shi'ites and the Imam | p. 270 |
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