Jack Miles

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity Jack Miles

Publisher Marketing: Edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, The Norton Anthology of World Religions provides a flexible library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world s major religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in six portable paperbacks. This anthology unites foundational works the Bhagavad Gita, the Daode jing, the Bible, the Qur an with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices have kept these religions vital for centuries, allowing instructors to shape a variety of courses. The selections are supported by the meticulously prepared apparatus introductions, explanatory annotations, bibliographies, maps, and glossaries for which Norton Anthologies have set the standard for fifty years. Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. The volume features Jack Miles s illuminating General Introduction How the West Learned to Compare Religions as well as Lawrence S. Cunningham s The Words and the Word Made Flesh, a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity. " Review Citations:

Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 130 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

New York Times Book Review 12/21/2014 pg. 8 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

New York Times Book Review 12/28/2014 pg. 22 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Miles, Jack Jack Miles (Ph. D. Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. He spent 1960 70 as a Jesuit seminarian, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a Ph. D. in Near Eastern languages in 1971. His book GOD: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for 2003-07. Contributor Bio:  Cunningham, Lawrence S Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus) at the University of Notre Dame. The author or editor of over 25 books and hundreds of essays and reviews, his books reflect his interest in the history of Christian spirituality, hagiography, the intersection of theology and culture, as well as the relationship of contemplation and action. Cunningham is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and the winner of Notre Dame's Presidential Award for service to academy and church (2002) and the Christus Magister award from the University of Portland in 2011 for distinguished scholarship and teaching. He has served as a visiting lecturer in this country and in Europe, Asia, and South Africa. His most recent academic book is INTRODUCTION TO CATHOLICISM (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and is currently serving as the Christianity editor for the forthcoming NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGIONS.