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"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 SmithIn 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 Christianitysome of them conflictingSmith 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 sciencethe 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 Christianityone that is both tolerant and substantial, traditional and relevant.

Huston Smith, author of the bestselling classic The World's Religions, examines Christianity in his most personal book yet. Smith presents the essential teachings of Christianity as clearly and concisely as he has addressed other faiths in his many books. But in The Soul of Christianity, Smith speaks on a more personal level; as a life-long Christian, he writes about what his religion means to him and how it has shaped his life and beliefs. Smith writes about why religion still matters today in a mostly secular world.

In contrast to the misguided course of culturally rigid and intolerant evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity on the one hand, and the non-transcendent liberal Christianity of Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, et al. on the other, Smith presents a passionate and convincing argument for a vital alternative that is a deeper, authentic Christian faith that is tolerant, respectful of people's religious differences, and still substantial.

The Soul of Christianity is a valuable resource both for those who are learning about Christianity for the first time, as well as Christians who would like to take a new look at their faith in this modern age.

"True to the noble calling which has distinguished his work for decades, Huston Smith points the way toward a profoundly metaphysical grasp of the classic Christian tradition, showing us as always what it means to live the life of faith in light of the highest and most universal principles."-- James S. Cutsinger, Professor of Theology and Religious Thought, University of South Carolina



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Huston Smith is internationally known and revered as the premier teacher of world religions. He is the focus of a five-part PBS television series with Bill Moyers and has taught at Washington University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and the University of California at Berkeley. The recipient of twelve honorary degrees, Smith's fifteen books include his bestselling The World's Religions, Why Religion Matters, and his autobiography, Tales of Wonder.

Titel
The Soul of Christianity
Untertitel
Restoring the Great Tradition
Autor
Huston Smith
EAN
9780061752582
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
HarperCollins
Herausgeber
HarperCollins
Veröffentlichung
13.10.2009
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Anzahl Seiten
224
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