Four testaments
Subtitle: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
By: [edited by] Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ
Contributors: Laozi; Confucius
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781442265776
Subjects: Religions; Sacred books; Relations; Religion
Other titles: Bhagavadgītā. English.; Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. English.
Description: "Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions--the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita--inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions"--

Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religionsthe Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gitainviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions. Following Brian Arthur Browns award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran, this volume of Four Testaments features essays by esteemed scholars to introduce readers to each tradition and text, as well as commentary on unexpected ways the ancient Zoroastrian tradition might connect Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, as well as the Abrahamic faiths. Four Testaments aims to foster deeper religious understanding in our interconnected and contentious world.  -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions; title: Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Prologue: Four Fingers and a Thumb - Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta; title: Book One From the Foundations of the Earth to Our Common Spiritual Ancestors; title: Introduction: East and West Meeting at the Altar of Religion by Cyril Glasse; title: Exordium: What We Once Knew, by Karl Friedrich Geldner; title: Preface: Why the Z Factor Matters; title: Through the Mists of Time: Vedic and Semitic Prehistories Connecting East and West; title: A Priest Becomes a Prophet: Commissioned at the River; title: A Chance Meeting at the Crossroads of History: A Prelude to the Babylonian Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic Religions; title: The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age; title: The Extant Avesta: A Few Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle; title: The Fraternal Twins of World Religion: Monism for Monotheists; title: Book Two The Taoist Testament; title: Introduction: Magi in China and Intellectual Ferment in Eurasia at the Middle of the First MillenniumBCE by Professor Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia University; title: Preface: Magic and iMagination; title: Tao Te Ching: translated by Victor H. Mair; title: Book Three The Confucian Testament; title: Introduction: Innovation vs.Tradition by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Oakland; title: Preface: Fireworks East and West; title: The Analects: translated by James Legge; title: Book Four The Buddhist Testament; title: Introduction: The Indian Origins of Buddhism by Professor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford; title: Preface: King Akbars Perfect Religion; title: Dhammapada: translated by S. Radhakrishnan; title: Book Five The Hindu Testament; title: Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination by Professor Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill University; title: Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi; title: Bhagavad Gita: translated by Gandhi; title: Book Six The Z Factor; title: Introduction: Eastern Influence in Western Texts by Dr. David Bruce; title: Preface: New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies; title: Israel in Exile: God as Israels Only Redeemer; title: Up from the River Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the World; title: Chinvat Bridge  The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and {28}Previous Revelations