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More than sixty essays from the most profound thinkers of the modern era.

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Little, Brown
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English
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635

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First Sentence

"Each of the five key terms in the title of this World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought has decisively shaped the book, and taken together they perform the function of defining its content and purpose."

Table of Contents

Foreword Page xiii
Preface Page xv
Introduction Page 3 The Grand Inquisitor/F.M. Dostoyevsky Page 13
I. THE UNBELIEVER
The Unbeliever/Albert Camus Page 29 The Progress of the Christian Religion/Edward Gibbon Page 34 Failure of Nerve/Gilbert Murray Page 46 The Essence of Religion/Ludwig Feuerbach Page 54 Beyond Good and Evil/Friedrich Nietzsche Page 64 The Future of an Illusion/Sigmund Freud Page 72 Religion, the Opium of the People/Karl Marx Page 79 Invictus/William Ernest Henley Page 92
II. THE WILL TO BELIEVE
The Will to Believe/William James Page 95 I and Thou/Martin Buber Page 115 Faith as Confession/Karl Barth Page 123 Modern Man in Search of a Soul/Carl Jung Page 130 The Screwtape Letters/C.S. Lewis Page 144 The Four Stages of Life/Rabindranath Tagore Page 149 The Prophet and Prophetic Religion/Seyyed Hossein Nasr Page 158 The Diary of a Country Priest/Georges Bernados Page 169
III. THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
God's Grandeur/Gerard Manley Hopkins Page 177 The Starred Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within/Immanuel Kant Page 178 Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion/Jane Ellen Harrison Page 181 The Image of God/Dorothy L. Sayers Page 187 Sacraments of Africa/James Frazer Page 194 Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth/Albert Einstein Page 202 The New Reformation/Alfred North Whitehead Page 206 The Intelligence in the Service of Christ/Etienne Gilson Page 218
IV. REVERENCE FOR LIFE
Reverence for Life/Albert Schweitzer Page 237 Divinity School Address/Ralph Waldo Emerson Page 244 The Qur'an/Fazlur Rahman Page 260 Continued Revelation/Nathan Soderblom Page 272 The Sacredness of Life/Dorothy Day Page 285 The Tragic Sense of Life/Miguel de Unamuno Page 289 The God Above God/Paul Tillich Page 300 The Essence of Prayer/Friedrich Heiler Page 308
V. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRADITION
The Reconstruction of Tradition/Muhammad Iqbal Page 319 In the Beginning/Mircea Eliade Page 333 What is Traditional Judaism?/Mordecai Kaplan Page 342 Buddhism in the Modern World/Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa Page 352 A Neo-Confucian Manifesto/Carsun Chang, Tang Chun-I, Mou Tsung-san, Hsu Fo-kuan Page 361 Apologia pro Vita Sua/John Henry Newman Page 369 The Essence of Christianity/Adolf von Harnack Page 378 Orthodoxy/Gilbert Keith Chesteron Page 385
VI. LOVE ABIDES
Love Abides/Soren Kierkegaard Page 393 The Importance of Living/Lin Yutang Page 399 Agape and Eros in Augustine/Anders Nygren Page 411 The Part of Imagination in the Moral Life/Nokolay Aleksandrovich Berdyaev Page 419 The Phenomenon of Man/Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Page 428 Man and His Perfection in Islam/Annemarie Schimmel Page 441 A Study of Good/Nishida Kitaro Page 453 Letters from Prison/Dietrich Bonhoeffer Page 462
VII. VISIONS OF THE OTHER WORLD
Visions of the Other World/Black Elk Page 477 Waiting for God/Simone Weil Page 482 Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought/Sarvepalli Radhakrisnan Page 490 The Three Elements of Religion/Friedrich von Hugel Page 498 The Doctrine of Karma/Daisetz Suzuki Page 512 The Reality of Sufism/Martin Lings Page 515 Mysticism and Theology/Evelyn Underhill Page 525 Jewish Mysticism/Gershom Scholem Page 537
VIII. FAITH AND FREEDOM
Faith and Freedom/Barbara Ward Page 549 The Spirit of Judaism/Abraham Heschel Page 559 The Foundations of Islamic Thought/Hamilton Gibb Page 567 The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy/Yu-lan Fung Page 576 The Social Principles of Jesus/Walter Rauschenbusch Page 586 Once to Every Man and Nation/James Russell Lowell Page 593 Autobiography/Mahatma Gandhi Page 597 Letter from Birmingham City Jail/Martin Luther King Page 606 Beauty Will Save the World/Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Page 623 Acknowledgments Page 631

Edition Notes

Series
World Treasuries (published by Book-of-the-Month Club)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
200/.9/034
Library of Congress
BL25 .W69 1990, BL25.W69 1990

The Physical Object

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Hardback
Pagination
xvii, 635 p. ;
Number of pages
635

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OL2214264M
Internet Archive
worldtreasuryofm00peli
ISBN 10
0316697702
LCCN
89037290
OCLC/WorldCat
20132531
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763617

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