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Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

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I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

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I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

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I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

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I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

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The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.

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You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: May 31st, 1919

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