Way of All the Earth

Experiments in Truth and Religion

John S. Dunne

“The holy man of our time, it seems, is not a figure like Gotama or Jesus or Mohammed, a man who could found a world religion, but a figure like Gandhi, a man who passes over by sympathetic understanding from his own religion to other religions and comes back again with new insight to his own. Passing over and coming back, it seems, is the spiritual adventure of our time. It is the adventure I want to undertake and describe in this book.”—from the Preface

“There is not another thinker—religious or secular—like Dunne. He brings to a too literal age the seer’s gift for uncovering the connections between our existing approaches to knowledge.” —Martin Marty

In The Way of All the Earth, John Dunne offers reflections on the common experiences of man as they are revealed in the writings of the Hindu-Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian traditions. In this inter-religious dialogue, John Dunne shifts his standpoint to reach a sympathetic understanding of the essential message of the Eastern religions and then returns with new insight into Christianity.