Gandhi On Christianity

Author : Robert Ellsberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883447567
Total Pages : 1991 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi on Christianity written by Robert Ellsberg and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 1991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi is widely revered as one of the great moral prophets of the twentieth century. This book focuses on a less well-known area of his interest: his engagement with Jesus and Christianity. As a faithful Hindu, he was unwilling to accept Christian dogma, but in Jesus he recognized and revered one of history's great prophets of nonviolence.

Author : Margaret Chatterjee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349053651
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi’s Religious Thought written by Margaret Chatterjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terrence J. Rynne
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334104
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi and Jesus written by Terrence J. Rynne and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when so many insist on countering violence with violence, this exploration of the life of Jesus and the (often misunderstood) teachings of Gandhi puts nonviolent action at the very heart of Christian salvation.

Author : Eli Stanley Jones
Publisher : New York ; Cincinnati : The Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christ of the Indian Road written by Eli Stanley Jones and published by New York ; Cincinnati : The Abingdon Press. This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331075
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi and the Unspeakable written by James W. Douglass and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, at the dawn of his country's independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he previously did with the story of JFK how police and security forces were complicit in the assassination and how in killing one man, they hoped to destroy his vision of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Gandhi had long anticipated and prepared for this fate. In reviewing the little-known story of his early "experiments in truth" in South Africa the laboratory for Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha, or truth force Douglass shows how early he confronted and overcame the fear of death. And, as with his account of JFK's death, he shows why this story matters: what we can learn from Gandhi's truth in the struggle for peace and reconciliation today.

Author : Michael Lieb
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164918X
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible written by Michael Lieb and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates the dominant historical-critical scholarly paradigm within the history of interpretation, rather than over and above it. At the same time, the breadth of material and hermeneutical issues that reception history engages with questions any narrow understanding of the history of the Bible and its effects on faith communities. The challenge that reception history faces is to explore tradition without either reducing its meaning to what faith communities think is important, or merely offering anthologies of interesting historical interpretations. This major new handbook addresses these matters by presenting reception history as an enterprise (not a method) that questions and understands tradition afresh. The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible consciously allows for the interplay of the traditional and the new through a two-part structure. Part I comprises a set of essays surveying the outline, form, and content of twelve key biblical books that have been influential in the history of interpretation. Part II offers a series of in-depth case studies of the interpretation of particular key biblical passages or books with due regard for the specificity of their social, cultural or aesthetic context. These case studies span two millennia of interpretation by readers with widely differing perspectives. Some are at the level of a group response (from Gnostic readings of Genesis, to Post-Holocaust Jewish interpretations of Job); others examine individual approaches to texts (such as Augustine and Pelagius on Romans, or Gandhi on the Sermon on the Mount). Several chapters examine historical moments, such as the 1860 debate over Genesis and evolution, while others look to wider themes such as non-violence or millenarianism. Further chapters study in detail the works of popular figures who have used the Bible to provide inspiration for their creativity, from Dante and Handel, to Bob Dylan and Dan Brown.

Author : F. G. Bailey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450018
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God-botherers and Other True-believers written by F. G. Bailey and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of "the Christian Right" in present-day politics in the United States and the "secular religion" of Hitler's National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi, the author asserts that we need religion, but we also need to make sure it does no harm.

Author : Ellsberg, Robert
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608338525
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lead, Kindly Light written by Ellsberg, Robert and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An anthology of Gandhi's writings that focus on his engagement with Christianity and Jesus, enhanced by thoughtful responses from Christian scholars and students of his teachings, highlighting his contributions to interreligious dialogue"--

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583944419
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way to God written by Mahatma Gandhi and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, easy-to-read essays revealing Gandhi’s most important teachings on love, meditation, service, and prayer—with profound wisdom and inspiration for readers of every faith. Mahatma Gandhi became famous as the leader of the Indian independence movement, but he called himself “a man of God disguised as a politician.” The Way to God demonstrates his enduring significance as a spiritual leader whose ideas offer insight and solace to seekers of every practice and persuasion. Collecting many of his most significant writings, the book explores the deep religious roots of Gandhi’s worldly accomplishments and reveals—in his own words—his intellectual, moral, and spiritual approaches to the divine. First published in India in 1971, the book is based on Gandhi’s lifetime experiments with truth and reveals the heart of his teachings. Gandhi’s aphoristic power, his ability to sum up complex ideas in a few authoritative strokes, shines through these pages. Individual chapters cover such topics as moral discipline, spiritual practice, spiritual experience, and much more. Gandhi’s guiding principles of selflessness, humility, service, active yet nonviolent resistance, and vegetarianism make his writings as timely today as when these writings first appeared. A foreword by Gandhi’s grandson Arun and an introduction by Michael Nagler add useful context.

Author : Easwaran Eknath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gandhi, the Man written by Easwaran Eknath and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution. Here, Eknath Easwaran describes the astonishing personal revolution by which this simple, inarticulate man transformed himself into the Mahatma who ushered the British Empire out of India without firing a shot. It is an unusually personal story, for the book's concern is not with Gandhi's politics but with the way he lived.