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

Publication Info. Boston : Little, Brown, [1990]
©1990

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  200.9034 WORLD    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 635 pages ; 24 cm
Contents The grand inquisitor / F.M. Dostoyevsky -- 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 -- 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 of a country priest / Georges Bernanos -- 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 -- 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 -- The reconstruction of tradition / Muhammad Iqbal -- In the beginning / Mircea Eliade -- What is traditional Judaism? / Mordecai 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Added Author Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006.
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
ISBN 0316697702: $29.95 ($37.95 Can.)
9780316697705
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