In today"s pluralistic culture many people, Christians and non-Christians alike, are searching for the meaning of life but feel confused by the labyrinthine multiplicity of religions in the world. This book intends to show that Christianity is God"s response -- expressed in human words and in human history -- to the divinely inspired yet sin-distorted universal human search for God. Through a sympathetic evaluation and comparison with Christianity of the major world religions (from Primitive myths and rites to Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam and Judaism), this work defends the credibility of the Catholic Christian faith and shows the need for dialogue with these religions in the "new evangelization" of the world called for by Vatican II. Rev. Roch A. Kereszty, O. Cist., is the author of Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology, 2nd revised and updated edition (ST PAULS / Alba House, 2002), editor of and contributor to The Eucharist in the Life of the Church (Paulist Press, 2002), co-author with Dr. William Farmer of Peter and Paul in the Church of Rome (Paulist Press, 1990), and author of God Seekers for a New Age (Pflaum, 1970). He is adjunct professor of theology at the Graduate School of the University of Dallas and chair of the Theology Department, Cistercian Preparatory School. Fr. Kereszty received his doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome. Reviews For many years after Vatican II there was not much new literature produced on apologetics--how to defend the Catholic faith and to prove its truth. In recent years that situation has begun to change. This book by Fr. Roch A. Kereszty, O.Cist., who teaches theology at the University of Dallas, is written as a help for those who engage in dialogue with members of "other religions" than Christianity. So the focus is not on Protestants, but on non-Christians. The book contains four parts, plus a Reader"s Guide whose pu