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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 200.1 EAN: 9780020641407 ISBN: 0020641400 Label: Touchstone Manufacturer: Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 180 Publication Date: April 01, 1992 Publisher: Touchstone Studio: Touchstone Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beliefs. It is concerned only with the question of where, in that diversity, the truth lies if there is any truth in religion at all. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Publishers Weekly has sold meI haven't read this book yet -- I'm just buying it now -- but the Publishers Weekly review is a classic. (My rating is based on a guess.) I'm guessing -- hoping -- that Adler's book is a popularized version of Joseph Ratzinger's "Truth and Tolerance," which I highly recommend to anyone who is interested in arguments concerning relativism. Rating:  - The Book that Started Me Thinking...When I read this book, I was already - perhaps only instinctively - one who recognized the incoherence of pluralism. Every time I heard some platitude about how "All roads lead to God," I knew that such comments were likely wishful thinking rather than conclusions based on evidence or logic. As a Protestant, Adler's sound arguments were a bit uncomfortable. Familiar with several Protestant denominations, I recall sitting in my own service thinking, "Obviously, all of these denominations ... Read More Rating: - Is Religion a question of truth ... or of taste?Mortimer Adler, the American philosopher and former Chairman of the board of editors for the Encyclopedia Britannica, was a very prolific writer and teacher. He died in 2001, at the age of 98, and was active until the very end of his life. He wrote this particular book when he was 88. As the Wikipedia encyclopedia says "Adler long strove to bring philosophy to the masses". In this short (160 pages) book Adler investigates what it says in the title: Truth in Religion. The sub-title is "the plurality ... Read More Rating: - If I could have everyone on the book read one book...It would be this one, without a doubt. First, though, I can't help but comment on the comical Publisher's Weekly review which calls the book "parochial," "dogmatic," "controversial," and "devisive." Apart from not being able to spell "divisive" the author of that review must find controversial the idea that an indicative proposition can't be both true and false at the same time and the same sense. Or is that the dogmatic point? One wonders if the reviewer thinks her charges true (and that's different than "wanders" ... Read More Rating: - Adler's philosophy of religion for a global worldThis book examines the world's major religions and the philosophical issue of unity of truth; that is, if something is true, anything that contradicts it must be false. Religion being the touchiest of subjects, this provocative book will inevitably rub some readers the wrong way. The list of potentially challenged readers would include believers of Eastern religions and those who hold that all the major religions are somehow equally valid and true. Adler recalls that Arnold Toynbee once predicted that in the ... Read More 
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