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Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Author: Blaise Pascal
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Author: Blaise Pascal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description

Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects

Author: Blaise Pascal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects; by Monsieur Pascal. Translated from the French

Author: Blaise Pascal
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects by Blaise Pascal. A New Translation, and a Memoir of His Life, by E. Craig

Author: Blaise Pascal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Why We Need Religion

Author: Stephen T. Asma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469692
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.

Private Thoughts on Religion

Author: Thomas Adam
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Category : Devotional literature
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects (Classic Reprint)

Author: Blaise Pascal
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527693579
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Excerpt from Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects The Translator is only aware of two English translations of the Thoughts being in existence. Neither of these is complete. They are both made from copies of the work, earlier than the edition of Bossut. One of them is a very eu tiquated version; and the other, is little more than a reprint of it, a little modernized in the style of expression, together with a few additional Thoughts. Many of the passages in both these, are so very ill rendered, as to convey no definite meaning whatever. 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.