"Tracing the Way is the product of a lifetime of experience. In researching and compiling this book, Hans Kung has travelled to every corner of the globe in search of God in his many guises. Kung casts an analytical eye over the major world religions and offers a view of the present and its meaning when measured against the past. Kung surveys the historical stages of each of the major world religions, and analyses their key paradigms, and paradigm shifts. For the present can be understood only in the light of constellations from the past which have persisted side by side with each other." "Tracing the Way attempts to understand the world's religions as objectively as possible and discusses the social, political and historical contexts of the many forms of belief that exist today."