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The World treasury of modern religious thought / edited by Jaroslav Pelikan ; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman, general editor.

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  • ISBN: 0316697702
  • ISBN: 9780316697705
  • Physical Description: xvii, 635 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 1990.

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Formatted Contents Note:
1. The unbeliever: The unbeliever / Albert Camus ; The progress of the Christian religion / Edward Gibbon ; Failure of nerve / Gilbert Murray ; The essence of religion / Ludwig Feuerbach ; Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche ; The feauture of an illusion / Sigmund Freud ; Religion, the opium of the people / Karl Marx ; Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- 2. The will to believe: The will to believe / William James ; I and thou / Martin Buber ; Faith as confession / Karl Barth ; Modern man in search of a soul / Carl Jung ; The Screwtape letters / C.S. Lewis ; The four stages of life / Rabindranath Tagore ; The prophet and prophetic religion / Seyyed Hossein Nasr ; The diary opf a country priest / Georges Bernanos -- 3. The grandeur of God: God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins ; The starred heaven above and the moral law within / Immanuel Kant ; Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion / Jane Ellen Harrison ; The image of God / Dorothy L. Sayers ; Sacraments of Africa / James Frazer ; Strange is our situation here upon earth / Albert Einstein ; The new reformation / Alfred North Whitehead ; The intelligence in the service of Christ / Etienne Gilson -- 4. Reverence for life: Reverence for life / Albert Schweitzer ; Divinity School address / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; The Qurʼān / Fazlur Rahman ; Continued revelation / Nathan Söderblom ; The sacredness of life / Dorothy Day ; The tragic sense of life / Miguel de Unamuno ; The god above God / Paul Tillich ; The essence of prayer / Friedrich Heiler -- 5. The reconstructionist tradition: The reconstruction of tradition / Muhammad Iqbal ; In the beginning / Mircea Eliade ; What is traditional Judaism? / Mordeaci Kaplan ; Buddhism in the modern world / Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa ; A neo-Confucian manifesto / Carsun Chang ... [et al.] ; Apologia pro vita sua / John Henry Newman ; The essence of Christianity / Adolf von Harnack ; Orthodoxy / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- 6. Love abides: Love abides / Søren Kierkegaard ; The importance of living / Lin Yutang ; Agape and eros in Augustine / Anders Nygren ; The part of imagination in the moral life / Nikolay Aleksandrovich Berdyaev ; The phenomenon of man / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ; Man and his perfection in Islam / Annemarie Schimmel ; A study of good / Nishida Kitarō ; Letters from prison / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- 7. Visions of the other world: Visions of the other world / Black Elk ; Waiting for God / Simone Weil ; Mysticism and ethics in Hindu thought / Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ; The three elements of religion / Friedrich von Hügel ; The doctrine of karma / Daisetz Suzuki ; The reality of Sufism / Martin Lings ; Mysticism and theology / Evelyn Underhill ; Jewish mysticism / Gershom Scholem -- 8. Faith and freedom: Faith and freedom / Barbara Ward ; The spirit of Judaism / Abraham Heschel ; The foundations of Islamic thought / Hamilton Gibb ; The spirit of Chinese philosophy / Yu-lan Fung ; The social principles of Jesus / Walter Rauschenbusch ; Once to every man and nation / James Russell Lowell ; Autobiography / Mahatma Gandhi ; Letter from the Birmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King ; Beauty will save the world / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Subject: Religion.

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