Abstract
C HRISTIAN theologians and Christian laymen still are little acquainted with the non-Christian religions at their best, although orientalists have put at their disposal a wealth of material, including numerous translations of important documents of the various Eastern faiths. The question is where to begin and how to make use of this material in an intelligent way. Some are weary, and rightly so, of the attempts of some Western writers to choose and pick isolated nuggets out of the context of a religious text in which they belong. There is a difference between selecting for one's personal scrapbook passages one happens to like, and promulgating a philosophia perennis arrived at by a more or less arbitrary fiat. For the study of non-Christian religions, some reach for the nearest manual or
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