Gerald R. McDermott explores the question, "Why are there other religions?" He looks at teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question.

Gerald R. McDermott (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is professor of religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is the author of Can Evangelicals Learn from World Religions? One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion and Non-Christian Faiths.