An argument could be made that more grief and suffering has occurred over religious differences than any other polarizing topic. But while the philosophical and theological foundations of the world’s leading faiths are significantly different from each other, these rival religions seem to possess a remarkable amount of common ground in how they respond to the challenges posed by the values and protocols of contemporary society.
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts’s new book, “A Truth Versus The Truth: How Religious People Embrace or Resist the Modern World” carefully details how multiple faiths’ religious traditions address the ebb and flow of a world that is strikingly different from the environments where these faiths first took root. Roberts puts forth what he dubs as the “Modernity Spectrum.” He observes that each faith has followers occupying the polar ends of this spectrum.
