What Christians can learn from other religions
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Louisville :
Westminster John Knox Press;
2014.
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- Machine generated contents note: Learning from Other Religions: Pitfalls and Possibilities
- Pitfalls in Comparing Religions
- Changing Perspectives on the Christian Mission
- What Is Religion?
- Confronting the Great Unknown
- What Is Revelation?
- Learning Afresh from Primal Roots
- Humanity's Earliest Religious Expressions
- Pervasive Spiritual Presence
- Myth in Primal Religion
- Learning from Judaism
- The Biblical Legacy
- What We Worship Is Central to Who We Are
- The Theological Significance of Jesus Christ
- Attitudes toward the Material World and Human History
- What Christians Can Learn from Jewish "Chosenness"
- The Jewish Sense of Tradition
- The Jewish Capacity to Endure
- Learning from Islam
- Confronting Negative Realities and Stereotypes
- Muslim Openness to Others
- Muslim Acceptance of Other Religions
- The Challenge of Islamic Monotheism
- Veneration of the Prophet
- Muslim Affirmations of the Physical World
- Contents note continued: Muslim Moral and Spiritual Disciplines
- Islamic Commitment to Universal Community
- The Paradox of Medieval Islam
- The Mystical Side of Islam: Sufisim and Rumi
- Learning from Hinduism
- The Vastness of God
- Reality and Illusion
- Human Fulfillment
- Life Stages and Personality Differences
- The Caste System
- Hindu Beliefs about Evil
- Conclusion
- Learning from Buddhism
- Buddhist Tolerance
- Some Background
- Buddhist Atheism
- Religious Authority
- The Illusion of Permanence
- Suffering
- Buddhist Compassion
- The Law of Karma
- The Lotus Sutra and Soka Gakkai
- Learning from Chinese Religion
- The Wisdom of Tao
- The Sayings of Confucius
- Conclusion
- Learning from Smaller Groups with Special Memories
- Learning from the Jains
- Learning from the Sikhs
- Learning from Zoroastrianism
- Learning from Baha'i
- Learning from Atheism
- Learning from Marxism
- Twenty-First-Century Atheism
- Contents note continued: Learning from Albert Einstein
- Can Other Religions Learn from Christianity?
- The Significance of Jesus
- Interpretation of Scripture
- Theological and Ethical Thinking
- Learning from the Secular Enlightenment
- Christian Engagement with Political Life
- Christian Ecumenism
- Conclusion.