The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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Page 86
... RELIGION'S POSITIVE FUNCTIONS At this point , it may be well to summarize briefly the paradoxical functions of religion . Religion proclaims the sacredness of life and attempts to further man's insight into his own development ...
... RELIGION'S POSITIVE FUNCTIONS At this point , it may be well to summarize briefly the paradoxical functions of religion . Religion proclaims the sacredness of life and attempts to further man's insight into his own development ...
Page 90
... religion : above all , with the special hope of the high religions for enlarging the sphere of the divine , for ... religion in historic societies without recalling how often the religious impulse itself has miscarried , and how ...
... religion : above all , with the special hope of the high religions for enlarging the sphere of the divine , for ... religion in historic societies without recalling how often the religious impulse itself has miscarried , and how ...
Page 117
Lewis Mumford. office of religion is to aim toward the creation on earth of the Beloved Community , the future task of religion is the task of inventing and applying the arts which shall win men over to unity and which shall overcome ...
Lewis Mumford. office of religion is to aim toward the creation on earth of the Beloved Community , the future task of religion is the task of inventing and applying the arts which shall win men over to unity and which shall overcome ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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