Abstract

The author maintains that for each of these religions, the present tendency toward a global culture requires: 1) a return to fundamental themes, distinguishing these from cultural accretions, and 2) the exploration of the extent to which these four religions share themes, e.g., the idea of the revelation of the Divine in all of human history. Unfortunately, this book does not contribute much to this project. The separate discussions of each religion do not give enough of the content of the thought of each to make clear its fundamental themes. Redundancies are frequent, and there is a tendency to substitute a list of theologians for summaries of their thought.--R. J. W.