IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 1, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Hailed by numerous reviewers for its depth and groundbreaking study on all religions, Take Off Your Shoes: You're Standing on Holy Ground, written by Richard Chadima, brings readers to a whole new world filled with balance and equality. In this extraordinarily-crafted book, the author shares the fruits and philosophies of his thirty-year research on all major and lesser known religions paving the way for spiritual understanding.
With quotes of scriptures and documents from ten spiritual traditions included in each chapter, Take Off Your Shoes gives readers the opportunity to become more acquainted with the core values of each and come to understand that the essence of all traditions is the same. Chadima wrote in each of the book's thirty chapters a different topic to support the central idea of spiritual commonalities. In clarifying the commonality of values based on each chapter's topic, the author presented selected scriptural quotes written in a simplified way for easy reading.
Giving Take Off Your Shoes an exceptional book review, Keith E. Gottschalk of Cedar Rapids' The Gazette commended the book saying, "Chadima links the concerns of the human race to lesson's of world's religions. Each chapter is prefaced by his thoughts, which frame the scriptural references to give more than a nod to transcendence." Carl Koch, Ph.D., of Viterbo University praises Chadima's book, commenting that "any teacher of religions or speaker on matters of spirituality will find this book quite helpful."
Richly layered and spellbinding, Take Off Your Shoes is a very detailed and highly respected book that explores the depths of religion, its philosophies and its influences on its respective followers. The book, which goes beyond the boundaries of geography, culture, and liturgy, will appeal to a huge variety of readers from teachers to researchers to government leaders, to seekers and to curious people in general. Chadima wrote Take Off Your Shoes to promote a universal understanding on all religions, its commonalities, and realize that God is one.
About the Author
Mr. Chadima has long been interested in the religions of the world. His thirty-year study of the subject has led to the creation of this book. He is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. where he served as a consultant on call to other churches. He has taught Adult Christian Education for many years. His strong belief in shared spiritual values has been demonstrated by his long-time participation in Jewish/Christian dialogue groups and his active role on the Board of Churches United. In that role he helped lead a group into a multi-faith organization which welcomes all religions.
Take Off Your Shoes -- by Richard W. Chadima
You're Standing on Holy Ground
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