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Shop nowLiving Biographies of Religious Leaders
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Learn moreThis absorbing book presents the lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world’s foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries.
In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors have also simply and clearly outlined the principal teachings of each of the great religions. The book will give greater significance to the listener’s own faith and a better understanding of the faith of others.
The great religious leaders whose lives and tenets are presented here are: Jesus Christ, Moses, Isaiah, Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, John the Baptist, Paul, Muhammad, Francis of Assisi, John Huss, Luther, Loyola, Calvin, George Fox, Swedenborg, Wesley, Brigham Young, Mary Baker Eddy, and Gandhi.
Henry Thomas grew up in Texas and has worked as an actor professionally for most of his life. He has also worked as a musician and a sword fighting instructor. The Window and the Mirror is his first novel.
Dana Lee Thomas was an associate editor of Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly. He attended Harvard, where he concentrated on history and economics. During the Second World War, he served as a news editor and military historian attached to the Third Army of General George S. Patton.
Wanda McCaddon began recording books for the fledgling audiobook industry in the early 1980s and has since narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers, as well as abridging, narrating, and coproducing classic titles for her own company, Big Ben. Audiobook listeners may be familiar with her voice under one of her two "nom de mikes," Donada Peters and Nadia May. The recipient of an Audie Award and more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, AudioFile magazine has named her one of recording's Golden Voices. Wanda also appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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“The authors seem to imply the existence of a higher being and see in the religious impulse a common spring for all faiths. [Wanda McCaddon] gives an energetic performance. Her tone is upbeat, and her voice is expressive and clear.”
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