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 113
... Toynbee assumes two things : one is that the Christian faith is alone the true one , and that Jesus is the only god ... Toynbee's later interpretation , was through the forma- tion of an otherworldly non - historic society in the ...
... Toynbee assumes two things : one is that the Christian faith is alone the true one , and that Jesus is the only god ... Toynbee's later interpretation , was through the forma- tion of an otherworldly non - historic society in the ...
Page 116
... Toynbee's special theory of Palingenesis or Re - Birth does not take into account is the fact that though many of the negative con- ditions that once made Christianity possible , nay imperative , are again here , the same basis for ...
... Toynbee's special theory of Palingenesis or Re - Birth does not take into account is the fact that though many of the negative con- ditions that once made Christianity possible , nay imperative , are again here , the same basis for ...
Page 217
... Toynbee , building on Spengler , has gone exhaustively into various aspects of growth , arrest , and disintegration , with far more concrete detail and a more generous allowance for contradictions and discrepancies than Spengler . Unfor ...
... Toynbee , building on Spengler , has gone exhaustively into various aspects of growth , arrest , and disintegration , with far more concrete detail and a more generous allowance for contradictions and discrepancies than Spengler . Unfor ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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