Author: John Hovey RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Religion of Manhood; Or, The Age of Thought
Author: John Hovey RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Religion of Manhood; Or, the Age of Thought
Author: John Hovey RobinsonThe Religion of Manhood
Author: John Henry RobinsonPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Religion of Manhood
Author: J. H. RobinsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330144305
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Excerpt from The Religion of Manhood: Or, the Age of Thought To avow one's sentiments, at proper times, and under certain circumstances, I believe is both manly and right. When our views flow onward with the popular current it requires no moral courage to express and defend them; but when we have arrived at conclusions entirely opposed to prevailing dogmas, not a little firmness and self-reliance is necessary to enable us to unfurl the independent flag, and drop into the ranks of the minority. It will be acknowledged, I presume, that every person must believe something. Each individual must have certain notions of a creative Deity, and some kind of a theory of divine government. In this country, it is generally conceded that every man has a perfect right to believe just what he can, rationally. If he is disposed to take the Alcoran of Mahomet for his moral guide, I suppose the government of this republic will not interfere in the premises, so long as he leads a sober and orderly life. Those who embrace the Jewish and Christian testaments, as authority in all matters pertaining to religion, have, also, the privilege of doing so. But one thing is obvious, and completely apparent to every candid mind, - any person who really believes a given proposition, must do so from evidence. Belief and unbelief are things of necessity, although one may profess to receive as true a proposition of which he knows literally nothing; yet the difference between profession and reality is just the difference between truth and falsehood. The flower grows because conditions favor its development; it has a fertile soil, gentle dews, genial rains, pure air, and bright sunshine. So a man believes, because conditions compel him to believe. This I conceive to be a sound and incontrovertible position, but one that is not understood by prevailing organizations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Religion of Manhood
Author: J. H. RobinsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484896214
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Excerpt from The Religion of Manhood: Or, the Age of Thought It is my firm conviction that the God of Nature never intended, and does not require, that a single human existence should be gov erned by a blind, unenlightened faith. It does not appear, to my comprehension, that the sublime God expects us to accept. As true any proposition which we cannot, in some manner, comprehend. I believe in the immortality of the soul. But why.do I thus believe? Simply, because conditions have been favorable to such a belief. N ot because the doctrine of immortality is\ proved beyond cavil' in the Jewish or Christian Scriptures not because this or that reverend clergyman has asserted it to be so not because our worthy minister, a few sab baths since, gave an accurate description of heaven, not forgetting its pearly gates, costly pavement, golden harps, white thrones, four and twenty beasts, &c, &c.; but because reason and inspiration have brought it home to my own soul. A reverend doctor may assure me a thousand times that I have an immortal spirit but, providing I could see no reason for having an immortal spirit, it would, doubtless, be a long time before I became a full convert to his doctrine. I ask him, How do you know'that. I have an immortal spirit? Did you ever see or hear, or have any, tangible communication with a spin itual existence, after it had thrown off its mortal organism? The learned doctor answers me in the negative. I remark, in return, Perhaps you are acquainted with some fortunate individual, of high moral integrity, in whom you place implicit confidence, who has had tangible and indubitable evidence of the soul's immortality. Again I receive a cold negative, and am informed that In other ages of the world, God spake to humanity by holy prophets, inspired men, Who acted as they were acted upon by the Supreme Intelligence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
RELIGION OF MANHOOD
Author: Robinson J. H.Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373922991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Christianity, the Science of Manhood
Author: Minot Judson SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Message of Christ to Manhood
Author: Alexander Viets Griswold AllenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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An Anxious Age
Author: Joseph BottumPublisher: Image
ISBN: 0385521464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand of the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. In An Anxious Age, Joseph Bottum offers an account of modern America, presented as a morality tale formed by a collision of spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Sprit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies of contemporary social classes adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave them meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "the Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to the Swallows of Capistrano, the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture.
Manhood Restored
Author: Eric MasonPublisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433679949
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
New church voice Eric Mason addresses the cultural and spiritual crises within manhood head-on, presenting a gospel-centered vision that points men back to God's original intent for their lives.