Philip Novak is an award-winning professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at
Dominican College. He has studied and collaborated with Huston Smith for over twenty years.
Review
"[Shows] that all the widsom we need is already available to us in abundance."
-- Thomas Moore
"Phillip Novak's loving and imaginative presentation of key texts from several traditions offers an excellent
resource . . . showing that all the wisdom we need is already available to us in abundance."
-- Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates
"I do not know where I could turn to find a richer harvest."
-- Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions
"A superb collection from the most entrancing literature ever to find expression in human language, literature
that emerges from the mysterious depths os the soul where the primordial world of the sacred manifests itself most
clearly."
-- Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth
"Beautifull y organized . . . the volume is a major contribution to both the lay and professional studies
of religion."
-- Publishers Weekly
Submitted by Publisher, July, 2001
Summary
An essential collection of the world's spiritual wisdom--a world bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian,
Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources.
