text: This book is going on my Christmas list.  I think Catholicism and Christianity are stuck in Western thinking and that there is much we can learn by exploring concepts of the divine that are fundamental to other faiths.   What would we understand of Jesus' life and message if He had been born in India or China and taught what He knew of the Creator God from an Eastern philosophic (??? - is that a word) perspective.   
  
  We need to better understand each other in this world where we are more in touch with people from so many different backgrounds, cultures, faiths and since the "superiority" of Western culture is no longer assumed.