The Divine Quest East and West

<p><b>Looks at the concept of Ultimate Reality in Hinduism Buddhism Judaism and Christianity.</b></p><p>Many books have discussed the development of the notion of God in Western monotheistic traditions but how have non-Western cultures conceptualized what those in the West might identify as God? What might be learned by comparing different visions of the Divine such as God gods Brahman Nirvana and Emptiness? James L. Ford engages these fascinating questions exploring notions of the Divine or Ultimate Reality within Jewish Christian Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Looking at a multiplicity of divine conceptions even within traditions Ford discusses the relationship between imagination and revelation in the emergence of visions of ultimacy; consequences and tendencies associated with particular notions of the Ultimate; and how new visions of the Ultimate arise in relation to social cultural political and scientific developments. Ford reflects on what can be learned through an awareness of the various beliefs about the Ultimate and on how such disparate visions influence the attitudes and behavior of people in different parts of the world.</p>