
Four Testaments
Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
By: Brian Arthur Brown (Editor)
Paperback | 2 October 2017
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Four Testaments is an excellent compendium of scriptures of the Eastern religious traditions. Complementing Brown's Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran (2012), the present volume introduces Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism through religious texts. The collection boasts translations of these texts by a variety of hands, including for example the Bhagavad Gita in the words of Mahatma Gandhi. Readers are guided through these rich and diverse texts in brief introductions by experts. The Gita, for example, is framed by an explanation from Arvind Sharma. This rich array of texts, interpreted by a wide range of scholars and theologians, is one of the book's strengths. Brown's focus is the meeting of East and West, and this is what gives the manuscript its uniqueness as it strives to make previously unarticulated connections between scriptures. This accessible volume should have a wide readership. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * CHOICE *
In a companion volume to ThreeTestaments: Torah, Gospel, and Quran, Canadian pastor Brian Arthur Brown presents the sacred scriptures of four Eastern faith traditions alongside critical essays about the texts. Accessible to nonscholars, Brown's underlying narrative posits an ancient meeting between the textual traditions of East and West in the Zoroastrian faith. The primary value of this book for many readers, however, will be in the words of the scriptures themselves. Locating scriptures of diverse traditions on adjacent pages is not without risk-but it is valuable for those who seek to be illuminated by the texts and moved to fruitful dialogue. * The Christian Century *
Four Testaments is an excellent overview of the Eastern religious traditions and an ideal complement to Three Testaments on the Abrahamic religions. If Three Testaments is your text for an Introduction to the Scriptures of the Western Monotheisms in the autumn semester, Four Testaments should be your text for the Scriptures of the Eastern Monisms in the spring. -- Jonathan Kearney, Saint Patrick's College, Dublin University
Four Testaments is certainly invaluable both worldwide and in the Global South. People may be more open to inter-faith and inter-religious dialogue-a lived reality-than is sometimes realized. Four Testaments showcases this dialogue at its best. -- Rev. Joy Abdul-Mohan, St. Andrew's Theological College, Trinidad & Tobago
Brian Brown has done it again with his usual mix of good scholarship and good humour. Four Testaments is the companion volume to Three Testaments, and covers the major Eastern religions. It provides important primary texts, as well as material to help non-specialists understand those texts. More importantly, it shows us the connections between our religious traditions. -- Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
The religions of India and China, which were once seen by Westerners as exotic but not very important personally, have now become, due to modern communications, religious influences on people all over the globe. This second volume of an important set thus serves as an essential introduction to how traditionally Eastern religions think about individuals, society, the environment, and the transcendent so that we can come to know each other and work together for the benefit of all of us. -- Elliot Dorff, American Jewish University
This is an insightful inquiry into the connections between the primary scriptures of the East, in the context of their cultures, and the primary scriptures of the West. The volume expertly affirms the interconnections between various textual traditions. It is a welcome addition to the ever-growing field of intertextual studies. -- Sharada and Rasiah Sugirtharajah, University of Birmingham
From the Foreword Four Testaments is an important work, suited to the times in which we live. Of course, the reading is not so simple or arbitrary as to end with just one volume. One needs to keep the Four Testaments on one's desk or nightstand alongside the Three Testaments, moving back and forth between the two volumes and their several great texts. -- Francis X. Clooney, SJ, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
ISBN: 9781538109083
ISBN-10: 1538109085
Published: 2nd October 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 496
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 17.8 x 25.5 x 3.3
Weight (kg): 0.82
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- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsReligionComparative Religion
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- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsOther Non-Christian ReligionsOriental ReligionsTaoism
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsBuddhismBuddhist Sacred Texts
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsHinduismHindu Sacred Texts