Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters
has taken the basic texts of the three related--and
competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement
according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of
Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's
skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with
their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their
well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges
from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief,
practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of
our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these
communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition
of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version
the identical material is broken down into three smaller but
self-contained books. The third, "The Works of the Spirit," focuses
on spirituality and worship and contains material on monasticism,
theology, mysticism, and the "End Time." Throughout the work we
hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of
them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own
tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of
theologians, priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled.
The work ends, as does the same author's now classic Children of
Abraham, in what Peters calls the "classical period," that is,
before the great movements of modernism and reform that were to
transform Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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