IMAGINING

THE SACRED:

Soundings in World Religions

Orbis Books, 1998

309pp., 8 pp. ill., Endnotes, Index

ISBN 1-57075-209-5

Paperback, $24

"This fascinating story by a Jesuit priest about his personal encounters with the seven major world religions is wise and informative. It should prove a fine text for college world religions courses. More broadly, the book is indispensable reading for anyone convinced that God speaks to the world's six billion people in differing but essentially similar ways."

--Robert Drinan, S.J., Georgetown University Law Center.

           "A fresh and welcome introduction to the world's religions, his accounts are flavored with engaging tales of his encounters with believers of each faith in his classroom, his work as a priest, or in his travels – interfaith dialogue embodied in concrete human relationships."

--Judith Berling, Graduate Theological Union.

The aim of this book is to expand the imagination, to experience at close range what it means to live and wonder and pray from within a religious tradition other than one's own. Drawing on modern biography, fiction, film, and personal anecdote, it offers a theology of disciplined empathy, one that respects, even celebrates religious differences while searching for any genuine common ground. It presents first the Ways of Wisdom
( Primal, Chinese-Japanese, Hindu, Buddhist), and then introduces the Ways of Prophecy (Jewish, Christian, Muslim), concluding with a chapter on the Humanist Way, a spirituality interpreted as a secular alternative to the previous religious Ways. Awarded the 1999 ASN National Jesuit Book Prize in theology and philosophy.

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