Description: This dean of world religious education presents the essential teaching of Christianity and--for the first time--his own profound Christian faith and conviction.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"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
'It is fascinating to read a great scholar of world religions expressing clearly and directly his own Christian faith." - John Polkinghorne
"A bracingly clear overview of Christianity..." - Dallas Morning News
"What [Smith] advocates is essentially a modernized and tolerant interpretation of the shared faith of Christianity's first thousand years..." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"The Soul of Christianity...manages to balance a concise explanation of the tenets of the faith with a sound rendering of current problems -- in fewer than 200 pages -- yet still sound a hopeful note..." - Columbus Dispatch
"At a time when popular culture is drenched with Christian books and jargon, the 86-year-old religious scholar has done something remarkable. He's written a book on the meaning of Christianity that's invigorating and devoid of cliches --- one that can appeal to Christians on the left and right of the political spectrum." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"If one is looking for a short, friendly introduction to what makes Christianity what it is, and why the vision of the divine yet human God it ushered in might still matter in a world often too one-dimensionally divided between red states and blue, The Soul of Christianity is it." - Los Angeles Times
If one is looking for a short, friendly introduction to what makes Christianity what it is, this is it. - Los Angeles Times