Religion and Creation

By Keith Ward

Book Overview

This is the second book in a trilogy tracing major concepts in the four scriptural faiths of the world: Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. Following the first book on Revelation, this new book focuses on the question of Creation. Ward explores what modern thinkers across the world and across faiths have had to say on the topic. In addition, he considers the insights of modern physics, and shows how the universe can be seen as the expression of the mind and heart of God.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198263945
• ISBN13: 9780198263944
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

eclectic and complex

Being unsubscribed to any faith but being very interesting in the parallels between most, I found this book very interesting, especially so because the author chose to focus on leading (and sometimes controversial) thinkers in the four areas of christianity, judaism, islam and orthodox hindu. The author takes the parallels he finds between these four faiths and attempts to construct a trinitarian view of God. I often found it amusing that he tries to rubbish the influence of classical thought (especially the Platonists and Aristoteleans) yet constructs an intriguing Trinitarian Creationist God not too far from the 'pagan' One/Good of Plato, Plotinus, or even, for that matter, the reasonably orthodox Trinitarian christian God of S T Coleridge.