Old Christianity has certainly done a great service to this world though skimming over the surface of Jesus's guidelines. What is most needed now is a fresh comprehension of his real mind and human saga. Rather than reviving primitive Christianity, we must go forward from where we find ourselves. The Master said it bluntly to his early disciples, "I still have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of the Truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth." Jesus's modern disciples should become in this era of knowledge an overflowing source of inspiration and superior motivation to all men and women. Religion is only an exalted humanism until it is made divine by enmeshing the heavenly spirit with the human experience.

Islam: The Alien Faith Hadi F. Eid At the dawn of the third millennium, Muslims are searching for their identity amid a swelling globalization. The world is divided into two major camps: the bursting civilizations that are reaching out with scientific and cultural expressions and the other camps that are flinching with social crises and religious revulsions. The gap widened between the actor, who won all opportunities, and the reactor, who lost all initiatives. This book is an on-the-fence historical and factual penetration to Islam and an essay to rid the besieged Muslim mind from outdated postulations and unleash it to openness and sincerity. Readers will encounter poignant facts and candid stories aimed at punching many tyrannical codes as the Kaaba idols were hit earlier by the axe of Muhammad.

In this period of theological ferment unmatched since the first Christian century, we once again have different ways of formulating Jesus's significance and identity while remaining within the one faith. We are being called to read the Scripture with a new approach suitable to our time and place. We must reclaim Jesus again so that his living, updated legacy will be handed on to the next generation throughout this twenty-first century. This ferment is creating many levels of belief in the story of Jesus. Today we have to admit that we live within the anonymity of an evolving universe where the ultimate mystery that Jesus identified as our Divine Father is the source and goal of all creation. We cannot be genuinely human if we are not related to this divine mystery that pervades the human experience-the one we live within as fish live in the sea.