Elizabeth West uses insights from Buddhism, specifically the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, to look at the teachings of Jesus within The Beatitudes. The study focuses on the fact that The Beatitudes are written in the present tense ("Blessed are...; theirs is...") indicating that the promises given are not for the future or afterlife, but rather they are states of being that as Christians we are meant to realize here and now.
- ISBN10 0826412459
- ISBN13 9780826412454
- Publish Date 1 May 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 March 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 120
- Language English