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Title: Handbook Of Today's Religions : by Josh McDowell, Don Stewart ISBN: 0-8407-3501-4 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: simply written and very informative
Comment: I found this book to be one of the best and most simply written reference books for the spectrum of today's religions. I think that it can be very helpful in conquering the wide-spread ignorance that surrounds different religious beliefs. However, before buying this book, one must realize that it is writtin from a bible-believing christian standpoint and therefore the ideas could most certianly be considered bias. However, in reading the book i think that you will find most of the information to be very factual. There is very little opinion and what opinion can be found is well presented by McDowell and Stewart. This is a must-buy for Christians.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Title of the book is very accurate
Comment: McDowell's and Stewart's *Handbook of Today's Religions* is a compilation of their series on the cults, world religions and secular religions, under one title. The work provides a systematic survey of the core beliefs, philosophical characteristics and significant writers within each religious viewpoint, and offers a critique from the foundation of a historic, Biblical Christian worldview.
The book is copiously documented from the primary sources and significant secondary materials, and is clearly written in a friendly and personable style. The documentation contained in this book alone is worth the price of the book. The religious views treated, while held to be in error by the authors, are treated with an irenic tone and intelligent manner.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not quite a handbook...
Comment: I felt that I should post a warning about this book, because it contains so many inaccuracies and fails to be the comprehensive treatment of the world's religions that it claims to be. I was raised a Southern Baptist Christian, but over the course of my life have come to develop a profound interest in and respect for faiths such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and others--most of which pre-date Christianity. The authors of this book mischaracterize the faiths in many places...one notable example being their description of Buddhism as "a sect of Hinduism," which is a shameful inaccuracy.
I was most offended by the tone of the book, which paints faiths other than Christianity as missing the mark in a very specific way--the fact that they aren't Christianity. Buddhism is targeted because it fails to produce a creator and savior. But Buddhism is several hundred years older than Christianity...are we to retroactively despise early Buddhists for not embracing a Christianity that hadn't come about yet? Sigh...
That and other absurd questions spring overwhelmingly from a reading of this book. The authors seem less interested in educating their readers about other faiths than tearing those faiths down and critiquing them negatively from a Christian perspective. I believe that that approach is harmful and disrespectful to other belief systems. How can a Vietnamese rice farmer who has never heard of Christ be missing the mark just because he's a Buddhist? He's never left his farming village--how could he have gone astray?
McDowell and Stewart do not present useful information in this book. They systematically attack faiths such as Buddism and Hinduism--in a way that is unflattering to them as writers and a GHASTLY piece of PR for Christianity. If the Christian mission is to lead nonbelievers to Christ, one does not gain any credibility for that mission by showing the attitude that others are deluded and inferior because of beliefs they have held all their lives. This book scares me, and I've gone to church all my life. If you buy it, read it with a grain of salt.
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Title: The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Ralston Martin, Ravi Zacharias, Jill Martin Rische, Kevin Rische ISBN: 0764228218 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: So What's the Difference? by Fritz Ridenour ISBN: 0830718982 Publisher: Regal Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict Fully Updated To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians Today by Josh McDowell ISBN: 0785243631 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.97 |
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Title: Handbook of Denominations in the United States (Handbook of Denominations in the United States, 11th Ed) by Frank Spencer Mead, Samuel S. Hill, Craig D. Atwood ISBN: 0687069831 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About the Christian Faith by Josh McDowell, Don Stewart ISBN: 084230021X Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: February, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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