TRANSFORMING LIGHT: The Living Heritage of World Religions

by Albert & Emily M. Vail ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 4, 1969

This large volume comes as one more attempt to discover a basic unity in all of the religions of mankind, and to project from that unity a promise of one world of men sustained by one religion in a benign future. All religions reveal a common pattern of evolution and the same spiritual life is to be found in all. Through this sieve of gnostic humanism, the various great religions of mankind are homogenized in such a way that their distinctive, not to say, opposing characteristics and tenets are concealed, and basic religious abstractions are made to cover discrepancies in such a way as to give the effect of a common religious truth. The method of presenting this account of man's religions is mainly that of simplified narrative. Buddhism--under which Confucianism is included--Christianity, and Islam are the chief religions described. A concluding section forecasts the ""Perfection of Days"" when mankind will ""stand in the dawning light of a world spring-time of science aÑd invention and brotherhood."" The book will be most satisfying to the naive whose religious outlook welcomes such simplification of the more rugged realities of religious diversities among men.

Pub Date: March 4, 1969

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Publisher: Harper & Row

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION