Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom

✍ Scribed by Thomas Langan

Publisher: University of Missouri
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Edition: 1ST
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Our emerging world system is bringing the great traditions and cultures it has spawned into ever more intimate and dangerous contact. Langan argues that we must struggle toward a unity of discourse respectful of genuine experiences of varying civilizations if we are to live peacefully on one planet.

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