Research Catalog

Title

The rivers of paradise : Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as religious founders / edited by David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond ; foreword by Hans Küng.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, ©2001.

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Additional Authors

• Freedman, David Noel, 1922-2008.
• McClymond, Michael J., 1958-

Description

ix, 702 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This important volume explores the lives of the five founders of major world religions--Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad--chronicling what is actually known of these charismatic men and introducing readers to the cultural and religious worlds that heard their messages. Readers in predominantly Christian lands, in addition to learning about the lives of Confucius, Buddha, and Muhammad--whom they might not be familiar with--will also be introduced to modern research now casting fresh light on the careers of Moses and Jesus. Whether studied individually or in comparison with one another, these biographies, together with a chapter on the characteristics of religious leadership, chart the spiritual rivers that continue to feed the diversity of religious expression today.

Subject

• Religious biography
• Religions
• 11.09 systematic religious studies: other
• Godsdiensten
• Stichters

Genre/Form

Religious biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Moses, Torah, and Judaism / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Shakyamuni : Buddhism's founder in ten acts / Richard S. Cohen -- Confucius / Mark Csikszentmihalyi -- Jesus / Michael J. McClymond -- Muhammad / Daniel C. Peterson -- Prophet or loss? : reassessing Max Weber's theory of religious leadership / Michael J. McClymond -- Final thoughts : responses to McClymond's "Prophet or loss?"

ISBN

• 0802845401
• 9780802845405
• 0802829570
• 9780802829573

LCCN

00063665

OCLC

• ocm44885303
• 44885303
• SCSB-1149408

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library