Author: Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451420159
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
W.C. Smith's vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped in to human life-in a rich, complex, and powerful way-as to be deemed sacred. Examining the history and use of scripture in the world's major religious traditions, he shows how and why scripture continues to carry momentous and at time appalling power in human affairs.