An edition of The World treasury of modern religious thought (1990)

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An edition of The World treasury of modern religious thought (1990)

The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought

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More than sixty essays from the most profound thinkers of the modern era.

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Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
635

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First Sentence

"Each of the five key terms in the title of this World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought has decisively shaped the book, and taken together they perform the function of defining its content and purpose."

Table of Contents

Foreword
Page xiii
Preface
Page xv
Introduction
Page 3
The Grand Inquisitor/F.M. Dostoyevsky
Page 13
I. THE UNBELIEVER
The Unbeliever/Albert Camus
Page 29
The Progress of the Christian Religion/Edward Gibbon
Page 34
Failure of Nerve/Gilbert Murray
Page 46
The Essence of Religion/Ludwig Feuerbach
Page 54
Beyond Good and Evil/Friedrich Nietzsche
Page 64
The Future of an Illusion/Sigmund Freud
Page 72
Religion, the Opium of the People/Karl Marx
Page 79
Invictus/William Ernest Henley
Page 92
II. THE WILL TO BELIEVE
The Will to Believe/William James
Page 95
I and Thou/Martin Buber
Page 115
Faith as Confession/Karl Barth
Page 123
Modern Man in Search of a Soul/Carl Jung
Page 130
The Screwtape Letters/C.S. Lewis
Page 144
The Four Stages of Life/Rabindranath Tagore
Page 149
The Prophet and Prophetic Religion/Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Page 158
The Diary of a Country Priest/Georges Bernados
Page 169
III. THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
God's Grandeur/Gerard Manley Hopkins
Page 177
The Starred Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within/Immanuel Kant
Page 178
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion/Jane Ellen Harrison
Page 181
The Image of God/Dorothy L. Sayers
Page 187
Sacraments of Africa/James Frazer
Page 194
Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth/Albert Einstein
Page 202
The New Reformation/Alfred North Whitehead
Page 206
The Intelligence in the Service of Christ/Etienne Gilson
Page 218
IV. REVERENCE FOR LIFE
Reverence for Life/Albert Schweitzer
Page 237
Divinity School Address/Ralph Waldo Emerson
Page 244
The Qur'an/Fazlur Rahman
Page 260
Continued Revelation/Nathan Soderblom
Page 272
The Sacredness of Life/Dorothy Day
Page 285
The Tragic Sense of Life/Miguel de Unamuno
Page 289
The God Above God/Paul Tillich
Page 300
The Essence of Prayer/Friedrich Heiler
Page 308
V. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRADITION
The Reconstruction of Tradition/Muhammad Iqbal
Page 319
In the Beginning/Mircea Eliade
Page 333
What is Traditional Judaism?/Mordecai Kaplan
Page 342
Buddhism in the Modern World/Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Page 352
A Neo-Confucian Manifesto/Carsun Chang, Tang Chun-I, Mou Tsung-san, Hsu Fo-kuan
Page 361
Apologia pro Vita Sua/John Henry Newman
Page 369
The Essence of Christianity/Adolf von Harnack
Page 378
Orthodoxy/Gilbert Keith Chesteron
Page 385
VI. LOVE ABIDES
Love Abides/Soren Kierkegaard
Page 393
The Importance of Living/Lin Yutang
Page 399
Agape and Eros in Augustine/Anders Nygren
Page 411
The Part of Imagination in the Moral Life/Nokolay Aleksandrovich Berdyaev
Page 419
The Phenomenon of Man/Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Page 428
Man and His Perfection in Islam/Annemarie Schimmel
Page 441
A Study of Good/Nishida Kitaro
Page 453
Letters from Prison/Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Page 462
VII. VISIONS OF THE OTHER WORLD
Visions of the Other World/Black Elk
Page 477
Waiting for God/Simone Weil
Page 482
Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought/Sarvepalli Radhakrisnan
Page 490
The Three Elements of Religion/Friedrich von Hugel
Page 498
The Doctrine of Karma/Daisetz Suzuki
Page 512
The Reality of Sufism/Martin Lings
Page 515
Mysticism and Theology/Evelyn Underhill
Page 525
Jewish Mysticism/Gershom Scholem
Page 537
VIII. FAITH AND FREEDOM
Faith and Freedom/Barbara Ward
Page 549
The Spirit of Judaism/Abraham Heschel
Page 559
The Foundations of Islamic Thought/Hamilton Gibb
Page 567
The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy/Yu-lan Fung
Page 576
The Social Principles of Jesus/Walter Rauschenbusch
Page 586
Once to Every Man and Nation/James Russell Lowell
Page 593
Autobiography/Mahatma Gandhi
Page 597
Letter from Birmingham City Jail/Martin Luther King
Page 606
Beauty Will Save the World/Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Page 623
Acknowledgments
Page 631

Edition Notes

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Boston
Series
World Treasuries (published by Book-of-the-Month Club)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
200/.9/034
Library of Congress
BL25 .W69 1990, BL25.W69 1990

The Physical Object

Format
Hardback
Pagination
xvii, 635 p. ;
Number of pages
635

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OL2214264M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0316697702
LCCN
89037290
OCLC/WorldCat
20132531
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763617

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OL16034989W

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