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Title: The Human Condition (The Comparative Religious Ideas Project) by Robert Cummings Neville, Peter L. Berger ISBN: 0-7914-4780-4 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Summary: Comparative Religion from a Traditional Stance
Comment: "The Human Condition" is one of three volumes from the three year long project run mainly by the Boston University School of Theology called the Comparative Religious Ideas Project (CRIP). The idea was to get together a group of scholars, one representing each major religious tradition (but not of that tradition him/herself), plus a group of "comparativist" scholars, to meet regularly and discuss three main topics: the human condition, ultimate realities, and religious truth. Volumes then emerged on each topic.
The religions covered are: Chinese Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism. Most of the scholars are from the faculty of Boston University (School of Theology and Department of Religion).
This volume contains a well written foreword by Peter Berger, who talks about globalisation and pluralism. There follows an introduction by Robert Neville, who chaired the project. Then individual chapters follow, one each per world religion, in which the relevant scholar tries to analyze how that religion (based mainly on its texts) has viewed the human condition. The volume ends with chapters trying to draw out some comparisons.
This volume will be of use to people interested in comparative religion. It will not be enjoyed, perhaps, by those who disagree with its methodology. For example, as the title of the project suggests, the study confines itself to "ideas", not practises. It therefore lacks something in the way of anthropological and historical approaches. It does not take into account more recent approaches such as narrative theology. And the compressed nature of the chapters means that much of the complexity and polyvocality present in any major religious tradition disappears (an understandable problem if one tries to answer "How does Islam / Christianity / etc. view the human condition" in 30 pages).
The book ends with a section on selected works for further reading.
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Title: Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion (Faith Meets Faith) by S. Mark Heim, Mark Heim ISBN: 1570750408 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology by Gordon D. Kaufman ISBN: 0674445767 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation by Gustavo Gutierrez, Caridad Inda, John Eagleson ISBN: 0883445425 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship by Joseph A. Bracken, Philip Clayton ISBN: 0802848923 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context by Douglas John Hall ISBN: 0800625455 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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