Transcendent Unity of Religions

by Frithjof Schuon

Book Overview

Schuon asserts that to transcend religious differences, we must explore the esoteric nature of the spiritual path back to the Divine Oneness at the heart of all religions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0835605876
• ISBN13: 9780835605878
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Essential reading

Schuon has an ability to write from that rare place--in comparison to which most people writing on religious diversity simply do not have the requisite tools--to give the sacred its due. Schuon writes about religion as such in its profound depth and breadth, and this leaves the reader feeling as though they have made a journey to a place from where they can breathe something of the expansive mountain air which we all have a yearning for. Essential reading!

A book forever

This book is just fundamental. It is the kind of work which lasts forever, because what it teaches us is something which does not change with time. The reader who usually reads modern philosophy or scholarly works on religions will enter a different world when he takes the decisive step of reading Schuon.

If you only read one book this year, this should be it

In my opinion, this is one of the most important books published in the 20th century, and there has never been a time when reading it is a must for every intelligent person out there than our present time . I can not recommend this book more , nor could I agree more with what T.S. Eliot wrote about it: "I have met with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental and Occidental religion" Huston Smith, probably the most eminent scholar of comparative religion studies in the US today and who wrote the introduction to this book, described Frithjof Schuon as: "The man is a living wonder; intellectually à propos religion, equally in depth and breadth, the paragon of our time. I know of no living thinker who begins to rival him..." If you only read one book this year, this should be itTo find out more about Frithjof Schuon, visit URL: ...

peace through understanding

This book clearly demonstrates the unity of all religions, although being different in their forms, from a metaphysical point of view.As such it helps to understand all religions, and their extrinsic orthodoxy, putting an end to the quarrels among some exponents of these religions, who feel to prove the validity of their religion, they must disprove the other religions.

Spiritually and intellectually one of the best works ever.

Frithjof Schuon is an author whose knowledge comes from deepest intellectual and spiritual realization, thus he writes with authority on the subject in a style unmatched in recent times. A summit of spiritual and intellectual realization who should be read by anybody who searches for truth. His beautiful style seizes the reader from the beginning with the feeling that Schuon is no ordinary thinker and this feeling becomes deeper as one continues reading. His other works are recommended as well.