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PREFACE

THE object of this little book is to present some of the less obvious and less understood results of communion with God.

The fruits of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness - are often, and rightly, dwelt upon as the supremely blessed outcome of the Spirit- filled life; and yet there are other, and no less real, benefits which communion with God confers, which should not be left out of the account.

To be sure, if we seek God's...

Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and...