Understanding the beliefs and practices of other faiths is essential not just to the task of interreligious dialogue, but also to grasping one's own faith.
In this brief volume in IVP Academic's Introductions in Seven Sentences, philosopher Douglas Groothuis creatively uses a single sentence representing each of several world religions as a way to open readers to their depth and complexity, including:
– Atheism: ‘God Is Dead.’
– Judaism: ‘I Am Who I Am.’
– Hinduism: ‘You Are That.’
– Buddhism: ‘Life Is Suffering.’
– Daoism: ‘The Dao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Eternal Dao.’
– Christianity: ‘Before Abraham Was, I Am.’
– Islam: ‘There Is One God, and Mohammad Is His Prophet.’With a sympathetic but not uncritical approach, Groothuis welcomes readers to a vital and global conversation.
The accessible primers in the Introductions in Seven Sentences collection act as brief introductions to an academic field, with simple organization: seven key sentences that give readers a birds-eye view of an entire discipline.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Just Seven Sentences?
1. Atheism: ‘God is dead.’
2. Judaism: ‘I am who I am.’
3. Hinduism: ‘You are that.’
4. Buddhism: ‘Life is suffering.’
5. Daoism: ‘The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao.’
6. Christianity: ‘Before Abraham was born, I am.’
7. Islam: ‘There is one God, and Muhammad is his prophet.’
Conclusion
Scripture Index
About the author
Douglas R. Groothuis (Ph D, Philosophy, University of Oregon) is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado. He has also been a visiting professor or adjunct faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary (Colorado Springs extension), Metropolitan State College of Denver, Westminster Theological Seminary (California campus), University of Oregon, New College Berkeley and Seattle Pacific University.His articles have been published in professional journals such as Religious Studies, Sophia, Theory and Research in Education, Philosophia Christi, Themelios, Think: A Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Christian Scholar's Review, Inquiry and Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. He has written several books, including Truth Decay, In Defense of Natural Theology (coeditor), Unmasking the New Age, Jesus in an Age of Controversy, Deceived by the Light, The Soul in Cyberspace, and, in the Wadsworth Philosophers Series, On Pascal and On Jesus.
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