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003 OCoLC
005 20200617073038.6
008 720120s1933 nyu b 000 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)00224793
050 4 $aBR125$b.B813
082 0 $a248
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aBrown, William Adams,$d1865-1943.
245 10 $aGod at work;$ba study of the supernatural,$cby William Adams Brown.
260 $aNew York,$bC. Scribner's Sons,$c1933.
300 $axvii, 301 pages$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $a"Suggestions for further readings": pages 285-293.
505 0 $aWhy religion stands or falls with the supernatural. The place of the supernatural in religion ; What it means to believe in the supernatural ; Aim of the present study -- The supernatural in contrast to nature. On the uses of definition ; Ways in which we may think of nature ; Why we believe in the existence of nature ; How this belief affects our view of the supernatural ; Reasons for being interested in the supernatural -- The supernatural in human life. Karl Barth discovers a strange new world in the Bible ; Anglo-Catholics find God in the church ; A first century Christian fellowship ; Other discoveries made by our contemporaries ; What religious men have found in the supernatural -- What the life of faith is like. The life of faith as a life of contrasts ; Marks of the life of faith -- The basis for faith in the nature of man. The problem presented by the inequalities of the religious experience ; How psychology helps us to understand man's capacity for religion ; How the miracles of religion differ from the miracles of science ; The fourfold root of the miracle faith -- Facts which make faith difficult. The mystery of good and the mystery of evil ; How philosophy tries to explain the mystery of evil ; How religion helps us to deal with the fact of evil ; Why men continue to believe in the good God in spite of the fact of evil -- Where God meets man. How God makes his presence known ; The place of crisis in the religious life ; Factors in the crisis we call conversion -- What the man of faith finds in God. God, the mysterious and the meaningful ; Meanings faith finds in God ; God, the all-sufficient -- Why contemporary science can find no place for miracle. The challenge of religion to the mind ; Ways of justifying faith in God ; How our changed view of nature affects our view of the supernatural ; Why miracle presents difficulties to the scientific mind -- Where contemporary philosophy is rediscovering the miraculous. Why nature alone is not enough ; Two ways of knowing reality ; What it means to be a person ; Why purpose in God as well as in man ; Different ways of conceiving personality in God ; Why religion cannot dispense with miracle -- Where faith sees God at work in history. The permanent and the changing in man's apprehension of God ; The place of the classic in religion ; The historic religions as man's social response to God's self-manifestation in history ; How Jesus shows us God at work -- Retrospect and prospect. Retrospect ; Prospect -- Ideals of sainthood. Sainthood as the goal of the life of faith ; Contrasted ideals of sainthood ; The place of the saint in Catholic piety ; How Protestants conceive the saintly life ; Secular substitutes for the saint ; Why the sainthood of the few is not enough -- Helps in the cultivation of the saintly life. The way of contemplation and the way of activity ; Bible and church as helps in the cultivation of the saintly life ; The church within and beyond the churches ; Where science must help ; How to measure progress.
590 $bArchive
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