Treasury of Religious Quotations

by Gerald Tomlinson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132764296
• ISBN13: 9780132764292
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A General-Use Collection of Religious Quotations

This is one of three books of religious quotations I keep handy for preparing my sermons and other religious writings. The other two are The Quotable Spirit (Lorie & Mascetti) and The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual Quotations (Parrinder).Tomlinson is a writer and editor who has produced books of quotations on several other subjects. This book was especially attractive to me because Tomlinson is a Unitarian Universalist (also my denomination).The 2000+ quotes are grouped into 149 topics listed alphabetically. Within each topic, quotations are further separated by religious or philosophical tradition. So if I want a Buddhist or Moslem perspective about something, it is easy to find. Conversely, if you want only Christian quotes, you can easily ignore the other subjects. Tomlinson uses 30 different religious/philosophical classifications, and each topic has quotes from Christianity and 1 to 8 other traditions. Some of the classifications are quite rare; for example, only quotes from Albert Einstein are given the label "Cosmic."Christian quotations make up a significant portion of the book. Also, the King James translations of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) are used instead of Jewish translations. Tomlinson categorizes these as "Christianity/Judaism" and places them next to the Christian quotations instead of using "Judaism/Christianity" and placing them next to the Jewish quotations. Native American traditions are virtually ignored, with only one Leni-Lenapi and two Navajo quotes. Other major and minor traditions fall between these extremes.Several appendices provide additional information. There are "thumbnail" biographies (2-4 lines) of the 170 people who are cited more than twice and a paragraph on each of the 30 religious/philosophical classifications. Full bibliographic information is provided for the 250 sources used to compile the collection. An author/title index is also included.The sources most frequently cited (other than scriptures or founders of world religions) are: Henry Ward Beecher, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Buber, George Buttrick, G. K. Chesterton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Abraham Johsua Heschel, William Ralph Inge, Rufus M. Jones, Hans Kung, Maimonides, Thomas Merton, Reinhold Niebuhr, Blaise Pascal, Franz Rosenzweig, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Shakespeare, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas a Kempis, and Paul Tillich.