Comparative religion textbooks from a Catholic viewpoint
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I have 3 recommendations:
First, gathered in this one volume, But Not Philosophy: Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought provides useful and thought-provoking introductions to 7 major "schools" of non-Western thought: Mesopotamian, ancient African, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, Islamic, and North American Indian. George Anastaplo (the author) studies ancient literary epics and legal codes and examines religious traditions and systems of thought, providing detailed references to authoritative histories and commentators.
Secondly, to find the greatest division in the entire history of religions, either of these two books:
- Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth by Mortimer Adler OR
- Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg.
Thirdly --and this is is a wildcard -- The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen. This will show you that the bias and the lack of honest comparison is an epidemic of the scholars you are depending upon.
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I would suggest a good apologetics book, because these are designed to refute the errors of false religions / belief systems and show how the Catholic religion is the only true one, e.g.:
- Catholic Apologetics: God, Christianity, and the Church by Fr. John Laux
- The Principles of Catholic Apologetics by Fr. T. J. Walshe
This more recent one compares Catholic theology and philosophy to that of other, non-Catholic belief systems (including even Eastern, Indian thought):
- The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics by Benedict Ashley, O.P.
Fr. Benny had a very interesting life, being an ex-Marxist before his conversion.
A classic comparing Catholic doctrine to Protestant/Lutheran doctrine is:
- Symbolism, or, Exposition of the doctrinal differences between Catholics and Protestants as evidenced by their symbolical writings by Möhler, Johann Adam, 1796-1838
"Symbol" in the sense of "creed" (σύμβολον, symballein, means a collection: "It is from its being a collection of maxims of faith that the symbol [*The Greek {symballein}] takes its name."
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