"There are many gaps to be filed in the comparative study of religions, but to isolate and deal with them
competently is not easy. John Bowker has done well to take up this subject, not hitherto treated in this way, and
in this fine comparative study he ranges across a wide field with assurance and authority. The great religious
traditions are studied in turn: Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Marxism representing the �Western tradition',
and the Eastern being seen in Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manicheeism and Jainism ... This book reads well
and is a pleasure to handle. It will take its place as a sound and thoughtful study of this vital problem, which
admits of no agreed solution except that the quest is worthwhile and that any religion claiming attention today
must face the facts."
-- Geoffrey Parrinder, The Expository Times
Submitted by Publisher, March, 2001
Summary
A comparative general study of the problems of suffering as treated by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Marxism,
Hinduism and Buddhism.