The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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... Religion , as I shall here define it , is a body of intuitions and work- ing beliefs that issue out of that part of man's nature and experience which science , deliberately seeking piecemeal knowledge of an im- mediately verifiable ...
... Religion , as I shall here define it , is a body of intuitions and work- ing beliefs that issue out of that part of man's nature and experience which science , deliberately seeking piecemeal knowledge of an im- mediately verifiable ...
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... RELIGION'S POSITIVE FUNCTIONS At this point , it may be well to summarize briefly the paradoxical functions of religion . Religion proclaims the sacredness of life and attempts to further man's insight into his own development ...
... RELIGION'S POSITIVE FUNCTIONS At this point , it may be well to summarize briefly the paradoxical functions of religion . Religion proclaims the sacredness of life and attempts to further man's insight into his own development ...
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... religion : above all , with the special hope of the high religions for enlarging the sphere of the divine , for trans- muting humanity into divinity at some far - off moment . The formulas that the Churches have employed for bringing ...
... religion : above all , with the special hope of the high religions for enlarging the sphere of the divine , for trans- muting humanity into divinity at some far - off moment . The formulas that the Churches have employed for bringing ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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