Friendship Ways To Truth [Paperback]

“David Burrell’s deeply personal book has opened up the portholes of faith and friendship on the universal quest for truth.” —Lenn E. Goodman, Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, and author of On Justice and God of Abraham
 

“This is an interesting book, a satisfying blend of the personal and the political. Burrell uses the concept of friendship as a central explanatory vehicle, and in so doing brings a new perspective to bear on many of the central issues in religion. The scope of the book is wide, ranging from discussing some of the most important contemporary Christian thinkers to Islamic theologians of a thousand years ago.  Burrell has a light stylistic touch which does not hide the profoundity of many of his observations.” —Oliver Leaman, editor of The Future of Philosophy: Towards the Twenty-First Century

David B. Burrell, C.S.C., is currently Theodore Hesburgh Emeritus Professor in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author ofKnowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas(Notre Dame Press, 1986) andFreedom and Creation in Three Traditions(Notre Dame Press, 1993). He has been asked to direct the University's Jerusalem program, housed at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, each spring until 2004.