Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Village Enlightenment in America
Author: Craig HazenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068287
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. A theologian, writer, and apologist for the nascent Mormon movement, as well as an amateur scientist, Orson Pratt wrote Key to the Universe, or a New Theory of Its Mechanism, to establish a scientific base for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Robert Hare, an inventor and ardent convert to spiritualism, used his scientific expertise to lend credence to the spiritualist movement. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, generally considered the initiator of the American mind-cure movement, developed an overtly religious concept of science and used it to justify his system of theology. Pratt, Hare, and Quimby all employed a potent combination of popular science and Baconianism to legitimate their new religious ideas. Using the same terms--matter, ether, magnetic force--to account for the behavior of particles, planetary rotation, and the influence of the Holy Ghost, these agents of the Enlightenment constructed complex systems intended to demonstrate a fundamental harmony between the physical and the metaphysical. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature, Volume 57, July to December 1892
Author: Bulletin of Bibliography
Author: The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949: Non-Dewey decimal classified titles
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2180
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Subject-index
Author: The Secret Doctrine
Author: Helena Petrovna BlavatskyPublisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835602389
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 2302
Book Description
A fountain of esoteric knowledge for deep truth seekers, this classic work examines the birth and structure of the universe and how everything has the Divine as its source. It also traces the development of humanity--drawing from sacred scriptures, mythology, and legends to give a spiritual view of human beings. Volume III is an index to help readers find any topic easily. Illustrations.