Jesus among Giants

William Cully Allen

"Jesus Among Giants: Religious Biographies in Comparative Context compares and contrasts Jesus to Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, Laozi, Moses, and Muhammad in terms of their missions and messages. The foundational religious figures are introduced in their particular socio-political context, on their own terms, in their own words, within the canons of their respective sacred scriptural traditions. Each chapter features the biography of a foundational religious figure, their teachings, a comparative analysis, and a suggestion about what Christians might learn from other foundational religious characters. It is a courageous new approach to comparative religion as a confrontational conference of conflicting claims in search of uncommon insights into truth. It observes striking similarities and discerns distinguishing differences but does not harmonize or hierarchize competing...