The Compact Guide To World Religions
The Compact Guide To World Religions Succinct chapters provide an excellent guide to understanding Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Taoism, Shintoism, and more.
Customer Review: A lot of information thats invalueable
This is a great book to learn about other religion and cultures, especially if you are an evangilist, pastor, minister, or just a lay person. I found the information in this book to be helpful, insightful, enlighten and easy to read and understand until it becomes unexcuseable why the children of darkness is wiser then the children of light. I found other religion in this book that I have never even heard of.
Customer Review: Shallow
As a Buddhist, I read only the section on Buddhism and my rating reflects only this part of the book.
I was heartened that the author didn’t make any of the grotesque factual errors that I often see in evangelical Christian coverage of Buddhism. However, the account was terribly superficial and the author demonstrated no true comprehension of Buddhist beliefs. It seems to me, as an evangelical tool, this chapter failed. I found that the tactics recommended for proselytizing to Buddhists were laughable and couldn’t imagine them succeeding with a practicing Buddhist.
I would encourage anyone wanting a more sophisticated presentation of Buddhism from a Christian perspective to read some of the offerings of Brother David Steindl-Rast, Father Heinrich Dumoulin, or Thomas Merton.
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