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Keywords
- comparative
- comparative history
- concept
- consciousness
- history
- history of literature
- history of religion
- Judaism
- knowledge
- living
- objectivity
- present
- religion
- singular
- theology
About this book
The man or woman of faith living in today's pluralist world must have a theology that will do justice to his or her own faith, and also to the neighbours' - and to the differences between them. Similarly, humanists must have a theory that does justice to their own vision and also to the fact that for most of their fellows on earth the proper way of being human has been one or another of various `religious' ways. Any interpretation of human history, both past and present, must take into serious account the self-consciousness of each major part, as well as the diversity and the dynamic of the whole. This exciting book, first published in 1981 and now also available in paperback, is perhaps our world's first serious endeavour towards a theology in global perspective. Here is a wrestling with the demands of an authentic theology of the comparative history of religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards a World Theology
Book Subtitle: Faith and the Comparative History of Religion
Authors: W. Smith
Series Title: Library of Philosophy and Religion
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-52272-1Published: 26 March 1990
Series ISSN: 2947-0242
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0250
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 206