Author: William Edward H. LeckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Religious Tendencies of the Age
Author: William Edward H. LeckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
pt. I. Preface. On the religious tendencies of the present age. On the unity of the human race. On the characteristics of religion under the Old Testament. Appendix
Author: Charles HardwickChrist and Other Masters: Preface. On the religious tendencies of the present age. On the unity of the human race. On the characteristics of religion under the Old Testament. Appendix
Author: Charles HardwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A Secular Age
Author: Charles TaylorPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674986911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Progress and Pessimism
Author: Jeffrey Paul Von ArxPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674713758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Faith in progress is a characteristic we often associate with the Victorian era. Victorian intellectuals and free-thinkers who believed in progress and wrote history from a progressive point of view--men such as Leslie Stephen, John Morley, W. E. H. Lecky, and James Anthony Froude--are usually thought to have done so because they were optimistic about their own times. Their optimism has been seen as the result of a successful Liberal campaign for political reform in the sixties and seventies, carried out in alliance with religious dissenters--a campaign that removed religion from the arena of public debate. Jeffrey Paul von Arx challenges this long-standing view of the Victorian intellectual aristocracy. He sees them as preoccupied with and even fearful of a religious resurgence throughout their careers, and demonstrates that their loss of confidence in contemporary liberalism began with their disillusionment over the effects of the Franchise Reform Act of 1867. He portrays their championing of the idea of progress as motivated not by optimism about the present, but by their desire to explain away and reverse if possible contemporary religious and political trends, such as the new mass politics in England and Ireland. This is the first book to explore how pessimism could be the psychological basis for the Victorians' progressive conception of history. Throughout, von Arx skillfully interweaves threads of religion, politics, and history, showing how ideas in one sphere cannot be understood without reference to the others.
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Author: Karin FinsterbuschPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904740940X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian traditions as well as the debates about euthanasia and death penalty in the Western world.
History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion
Author: Adam Storey FarrarPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion" by Adam Storey Farrar. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Christ and Other Masters
Author: Charles HardwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Primitive Methodist Magazine
Author: The History of the Christian Religion and Church During the Three First Centuries
Author: August NeanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description