Tracing the Way: Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions - Couverture rigide

Kung, Hans

 
9780826456830: Tracing the Way: Spiritual Dimensions of the World Religions
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0826456839 ISBN 13 : 9780826456830
Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2002

Synopsis

Kung casts an analytical eye over the major world religions and offers a view of the present and what that means when measured against the past. He surveys, as succinctly as possible, the historical stages of each world religion and analyzes their major paradigms and paradigm shifts. "Tracing the Way" attempts to understand the religions, in both text and pictures, as objectively as possible and discusses the social, political and historical contexts of the many forms of belief that exist today.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Tracing the Way is the product of a lifetime of experience. In researching and compiling this book Hans Kung has traveled to every corner of the globe in search of God in his many guises. Kung casts an analytical eye over the major world religions and offers a view of the present and what that means when measured against the past. Kung surveys, as succinctly as possible, the historical stages of each world religion and analyses their major paradigms and paradigm shifts. For the present can be understood only in the light of constellations from the past which have persisted side by side with each other

Tracing the Way attempts to understand the religions as objectively as possible and discusses the social, political and historical contexts of the many forms of belief that exist today.

Biographie de l'auteur

Hans Kung is Emeritus Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tubingen and President of the Global Ethic Foundation. He is the author of numerous best selling books including On Being a Christian (Harper Collins).

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Éditeur
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0826456839
ISBN 13 
9780826456830
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0826494234 ISBN 13 :  9780826494238
Editeur : Continuum International Publishing, 2006
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