Each of the founders lived in an era and place of social and
spiritual turmoil, an age and situation having much in common with
ours today.
Teacher's Guide Tips and suggestions for using
The World & I in the classroom.
American Waves
Focuses on the heritage and experience of diverse racial, ethnic,
and cultural groups in the United States today.
Writer's and Writing (upcoming)
Profiles the lives and works of novelists, poets, and playwrights,
discussing the creative challenges they faced and surmounted.
Each of the founders lived in an era and
place of social and spiritual turmoil, an age and situation having
much in common with ours today.
Religions can be investigated in many
ways—through their doctrines, their rites, the testimonies and
lives of their adherents, and through the extent and pattern of
their advance. Another
way is to look at the lives and accomplishments of their founders.
This five-part series, Fathers of Faith, will do just that,
examining five of the world's major religions by focusing on the
lives of Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad.
Each lived in an era and place of
social and spiritual turmoil, times much in common with ours today.
Each sought reform and attempted to change at least some aspect of
the society as he found it.
The preeminent contributors to this
collection discuss the life and times of these visionary figures and
explore why the central insights of these men have endured and
continue to profoundly influence human society to the present day. ----The
Editor
Siddartha Gautama taught a program
of self-cultivation that was to culminate in a state of peace,
happiness, and freedom from the sufferings of life. And unlike most
of his contemporaries, he was able to establish a community of
followers that endured after his death.
Confucius, revered as the ultimate
sage and the foremost teacher throughout Chinese and East Asian
history, created a new mode of thinking and a new form of life.
To regard Jesus historically
requires releasing him from service to our modern concerns or
confessional identity. When we renounce the false familiarity
proffered us by the dark angels of Relevance and Anachronism, we can
begin to see Jesus.
