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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature more books like this

by William James

James' masterful treatise on the psychology of individual religious experience was originally composed for the prestigious Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh University in 1901-1902. Emphasising subjective religious experience in its many guises, as opposed to the distinctions among specific creeds or theologies, this trenchant exploration of ...

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Consolation of Philosophy

Consolation of Philosophy more books like this

by Boethius

In this highly praised new translation of Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy", David R. Slavitt presents a graceful, accessible, and modern version for both longtime admirers of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature and those encountering it for the first time. Slavitt preserves the distinction between the alternating ...

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Varieties of Religious Experience

Varieties of Religious Experience more books like this

by William James

"The Varieties of Religious Experience," first delivered as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, was published in 1902 and quickly established itself as a classic. It ranks with its great predecessor, "The Principles of Psychology," as one of William James's masterworks. The book is not concerned with institutional religion. Its subtitle is "A ...

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The perennial philosophy

The perennial philosophy more books like this

by Aldous Huxley

In this reissue, in Huxley's centenary year, he quotes from Chinese Taoists, from followers of Buddha and Mohammed, from the Brahmin scriptures and from Christian mystics such as St John of the Cross to illustrate his belief in a universal truth. Beneath the revelations of all the great world religions, the teachings of the wise and the holy of ...

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Age of Reason

Age of Reason more books like this

by Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine, defender of freedom, independence, and rational common sense during America's turbulent revolutionary period, offers insights into religion which ring sharply true more than two centuries later. This unabridged edition of "The Age of Reason" sets forth Paine's provocative observations on the place of religion in society.

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Preface to Morals

Preface to Morals more books like this

by Walter Lippmann

1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses liberal democracy. Partial Contents: Part I The ...

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A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living more books like this

by Diane K Osbon (Editor)

Celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell shares his intimate and inspiring reflections on the art of living in this beautifully packaged book, part of a new series to be based on his unpublished writings.

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Tragic Sense of Life

Tragic Sense of Life more books like this

by Miguel De Unamuno

The acknowledged masterpiece of one of Spain's most influential thinkers. Between despair and the desire for something better, Unamuno finds that "saving incertitude" that alone can console us.

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The Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living more books like this

by Joseph Campbell, Diane K Osbon, Diane Osborn (Designer)

Joseph Campbell shares personal revelations and intimate reflections on the art of living.

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First principles

First principles more books like this

by Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was regarded by the Victorians as the foremost philosopher of the age, the prophet of evolution at a time when the idea had gripped the popular imagination. His ambition was to construct a 'Synthetic Philosophy' which unified all knowledge by demonstrating evolution to be at work throughout the universe from the nebulae to human ...

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The Missing Link: Reflections on Philosophy and Spirit more books like this

by Sydney Banks

This book illuminates and creates an appreciation for the mystical link between the psychological and spiritual nature of life. It reveals a simplicity beneath the complex workings of the mind and the principles behind the creation of our life experience.

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The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on the Conflict Between Religion and Philosophy more books like this

by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

A love story by murder and a comedy with horror. ". . . by turns hysterical, incoherent, and blasphemously original . . . loopy and outrageous".--"Washington Post" Starring Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini and Wings Hauser. Color, 110 minutes.

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The heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers more books like this

by Carl Lotus Becker

Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that ...

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Against the Academicians: The Teacher more books like this

by Saint Augustine of Hippo, Augustine

These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience in mind, and the first to be translated by a scholar with expertise in both modern ...

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The Dark Side of Christian History more books like this

by Helen Ellerbe (Preface by)

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Come, Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking more books like this

by Dr. Norman L Geisler, PH.D., Ronald M Brooks

God created logic and calls Christians to orderly thinking. On this premise, a simplified study of logic prepares readers to reason thoughtfully and to spot illogic in an argument.

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Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes--Life as Vanity, Job--Life as Suffering, Song of Songs--Life as Love more books like this

by Peter Kreeft

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Critique of Religion and Philosophy more books like this

by Walter Kaufmann

'Since Kaufmann's study is not only well written but also the only existing text combining detailed understanding, sympathy, and criticism of both existentialism and analytic philosophy, it becomes a 'must' for any man's spiritual medicine cabinet. Add to this a careful critique of neo-orthodoxy, the Higher Criticism, demythologizing, mysticism, ...

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Religion within the limits of reason alone more books like this

by Immanuel Kant

A Monumental Figure of Western Thought Wrestles with the Question of God Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him. Kant's teachings on religion were unorthodox in that they were ...

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Eclipse of God more books like this

by Martin Buber, Robert M Seltzer (Introduction by)

The condition Buber calls the "eclipse of God" is the reality that modern life and the teachings of many scholars have in many ways destroyed the opportunity for intimacy with an eternal, ever-present, Thou, or God. Based in part on a series of lectures he gave in the United States in 1951, this book examines Buber's interpretations of Western ...

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The Consolation of Philosophy: Boethius more books like this

by Richard H. Green

An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. 475-525 AD) was also an exceptional Greek scholar. It was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, it is a dialogue that alternates from prose to verse between the ...

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The varieties of religious experience, a study in human nature; being the Gifford lectures on natural religion more books like this

by William James

The persistence throughout history of intense religious experiences testifies to its importance in understanding human nature. In examining phenomena such as case histories of religious conversions, the lives of saints, the mystical experiences of "cosmic consciousness," and reincarnation, James makes a case for the existence of real power or ...

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Creative Fidelity more books like this

by Gabriel Marcel

This important collection of lectures and essays was regarded by Gabriel Marcel as the best introduction to his thought. Outstanding in the richness of its analyses and in its application of Marcel's "concrete approach" to philosophical problems, Creative Fidelity not only deals with the perennial Marcellian themes of faith, fidelity, belief, ...

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Faith of a Heretic more books like this

by Walter Arnold Kaufmann

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Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science more books like this

by Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D.

Though the chasm between science and religion has been a source of intellectual and spiritual tension for centuries, the momentous dialogues in NATURAL GRACE demonstrate a remarkable confluence of once opposing camps. Matthew Fox is an Episcopal priest and author. Rupert Sheldrake is one of the most innovative scientists of our time.

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