Dismissing God: Modern Writers' Struggle Against ReligionIn the past two centuries many leading writers have held their quarrel with God. In Dismissing God, D. Bruce Lockerbie explores the nature of this quarrel by examining the lives, beliefs, and works of more than twenty European and American author. |
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... reason . So Arnold decried his realization that " our religion has materialized itself in the fact , in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the fact , and now the fact is failing it . " As a result , Arnold perceived that ...
... reason . So Arnold decried his realization that " our religion has materialized itself in the fact , in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the fact , and now the fact is failing it . " As a result , Arnold perceived that ...
Page 88
... reason of Providence and futurity , and of everything that lies beyond human ken , and informed me that he had " pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated " ; but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation ; and , I think ...
... reason of Providence and futurity , and of everything that lies beyond human ken , and informed me that he had " pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated " ; but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation ; and , I think ...
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... reason and imag- ination , " proposing that the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another , however produced , and the lat- ter as mind acting upon those thoughts so as to color them ...
... reason and imag- ination , " proposing that the former may be considered as mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another , however produced , and the lat- ter as mind acting upon those thoughts so as to color them ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Ebb Tide of Faith | 17 |
The Abdication of Belief | 34 |
Copyright | |
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