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The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition. In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity
The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition. In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today's secular world.
The Soul of Christianity book. In an interview with HarperSanFrancisco, Huston Smith says he wrote The Soul of Christianity in response to his friend and former pupil’s book: Marcus Borg’s The Heart of Christianity. Smith accused Borg of having given up too much to Modernism. We could imagine he means Borg’s tendency to discount many of the miraculous stories in both the Old and New Testaments. A self-proclaimed universalist, Smith actually accuses Borg of being too liberal.
Huston Smith is the wisest, sanest religious scholar of them all, and so wonderfully readable. I read this book while at a crossroads about Christianity. Smith's views on the possibilities of this religion were hopeful and refreshing
Huston Smith is the wisest, sanest religious scholar of them all, and so wonderfully readable. Anne Lamott, author of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith). Smith's views on the possibilities of this religion were hopeful and refreshing.
This is not the exclusivist Christianity of strict fundamentalists, nor the liberal, watered-down Christianity .
This is not the exclusivist Christianity of strict fundamentalists, nor the liberal, watered-down Christianity practiced by many contemporary churchgoers.
The Great Tradition is Faith Itself. com User, July 6, 2006.
book by Huston Smith. The Great Tradition is Faith Itself. The Soul of Christianity, Restoring the Great Tradition is renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith's distillation of the Christian message as the source of Truth from which all meaning in life is derived.
religions and philosophy, and his book The World's Religions (originally titled The .
religions and philosophy, and his book The World's Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) sold over three million copies as of 2017 and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion. The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition, 2005, HarperOne, 1st ed. ISBN 0-06-079478-X. A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom, 2006, University of California Press
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Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant . The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition.
Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once. Buddhism: A Concise Introduction. by Huston Smith · Philip Novak. I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to i. -Huston SmithIn his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renown.
"I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to it."—Huston Smith
In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today's secular world.
Though there is a wide variety of contemporary interpretations of Christianity—some of them conflicting—Smith cuts through these to describe Christianity's "Great Tradition," the common faith of the first millennium of believers, which is the trunk of the tree from which Christianity's many branches, twigs, and leaves have grown. This is not the exclusivist Christianity of strict fundamentalists, nor the liberal, watered-down Christianity practiced by many contemporary churchgoers. In exposing biblical literalism as unworkable as well as enumerating the mistakes of modern secularists, Smith presents the very soul of a real and substantive faith, one still relevant and worth believing in.
Smith rails against the hijacked Christianity of politicians who exploit it for their own needs. He decries the exercise of business that widens the gap between rich and poor, and fears education has lost its sense of direction. For Smith, the media has become a business that sensationalizes news rather than broadening our understanding, and art and music have become commercial and shocking rather than enlightening. Smith reserves his harshest condemnation, however, for secular modernity, which has stemmed from the misreading of science—the mistake of assuming that "absence of evidence" of a scientific nature is "evidence of absence." These mistakes have all but banished faith in transcendence and the Divine from mainstream culture and pushed it to the margins.
Though the situation is grave, these modern misapprehensions can be corrected, says Smith, by reexamining the great tradition of Christianity's first millennium and reaping the lessons it holds for us today. This fresh examination of the Christian worldview, its history, and its major branches provides the deepest, most authentic vision of Christianity—one that is both tolerant and substantial, traditional and relevant.
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