The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought
By: edited by Jaroslav Pelikan ; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman, General Editor.
Contributors: Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan, 1923-; Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: World Treasuries (published by Book-of-the-Month Club)
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 635
Subjects: Religion
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.
Description: More than sixty essays from the most profound thinkers of the modern era.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: xiii; title: Preface
pagenum: xv; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; title: The Grand Inquisitor/F.M. Dostoyevsky
pagenum: 13; label: I.
title: THE UNBELIEVER; title: The Unbeliever/Albert Camus
pagenum: 29; title: The Progress of the Christian Religion/Edward Gibbon
pagenum: 34; title: Failure of Nerve/Gilbert Murray
pagenum: 46; title: The Essence of Religion/Ludwig Feuerbach
pagenum: 54; title: Beyond Good and Evil/Friedrich Nietzsche
pagenum: 64; title: The Future of an Illusion/Sigmund Freud
pagenum: 72; title: Religion, the Opium of the People/Karl Marx
pagenum: 79; title: Invictus/William Ernest Henley
pagenum: 92; label: II.
title: THE WILL TO BELIEVE; title: The Will to Believe/William James
pagenum: 95; title: I and Thou/Martin Buber
pagenum: 115; title: Faith as Confession/Karl Barth
pagenum: 123; title: Modern Man in Search of a Soul/Carl Jung
pagenum: 130; title: The Screwtape Letters/C.S. Lewis
pagenum: 144; title: The Four Stages of Life/Rabindranath Tagore
pagenum: 149; title: The Prophet and Prophetic Religion/Seyyed Hossein Nasr
pagenum: 158; title: The Diary of a Country Priest/Georges Bernados
pagenum: 169; label: III.
title: THE GRANDEUR OF GOD; title: God's Grandeur/Gerard Manley Hopkins
pagenum: 177; title: The Starred Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within/Immanuel Kant
pagenum: 178; title: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion/Jane Ellen Harrison
pagenum: 181; title: The Image of God/Dorothy L. Sayers
pagenum: 187; title: Sacraments of Africa/James Frazer
pagenum: 194; title: Strange Is Our Situation Here Upon Earth/Albert Einstein
pagenum: 202; title: The New Reformation/Alfred North Whitehead
pagenum: 206; title: The Intelligence in the Service of Christ/Etienne Gilson
pagenum: 218; label: IV.
title: REVERENCE FOR LIFE; title: Reverence for Life/Albert Schweitzer
pagenum: 237; title: Divinity School Address/Ralph Waldo Emerson
pagenum: 244; title: The Qur'an/Fazlur Rahman
pagenum: 260; title: Continued Revelation/Nathan Soderblom
pagenum: 272; title: The Sacredness of Life/Dorothy Day
pagenum: 285; title: The Tragic Sense of Life/Miguel de Unamuno
pagenum: 289; title: The God Above God/Paul Tillich
pagenum: 300; title: The Essence of Prayer/Friedrich Heiler
pagenum: 308; label: V.
title: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRADITION; title: The Reconstruction of Tradition/Muhammad Iqbal
pagenum: 319; title: In the Beginning/Mircea Eliade
pagenum: 333; title: What is Traditional Judaism?/Mordecai Kaplan
pagenum: 342; title: Buddhism in the Modern World/Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
pagenum: 352; title: A Neo-Confucian Manifesto/Carsun Chang, Tang Chun-I, Mou Tsung-san, Hsu Fo-kuan
pagenum: 361; title: Apologia pro Vita Sua/John Henry Newman
pagenum: 369; title: The Essence of Christianity/Adolf von Harnack
pagenum: 378; title: Orthodoxy/Gilbert Keith Chesteron
pagenum: 385; label: VI.
title: LOVE ABIDES; title: Love Abides/Soren Kierkegaard
pagenum: 393; title: The Importance of Living/Lin Yutang
pagenum: 399; title: Agape and Eros in Augustine/Anders Nygren
pagenum: 411; title: The Part of Imagination in the Moral Life/Nokolay Aleksandrovich Berdyaev
pagenum: 419; title: The Phenomenon of Man/Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
pagenum: 428; title: Man and His Perfection in Islam/Annemarie Schimmel
pagenum: 441; title: A Study of Good/Nishida Kitaro
pagenum: 453; title: Letters from Prison/Dietrich Bonhoeffer
pagenum: 462; label: VII.
title: VISIONS OF THE OTHER WORLD; title: Visions of the Other World/Black Elk
pagenum: 477; title: Waiting for God/Simone Weil
pagenum: 482; title: Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought/Sarvepalli Radhakrisnan
pagenum: 490; title: The Three Elements of Religion/Friedrich von Hugel
pagenum: 498; title: The Doctrine of Karma/Daisetz Suzuki
pagenum: 512; title: The Reality of Sufism/Martin Lings
pagenum: 515; title: Mysticism and Theology/Evelyn Underhill
pagenum: 525; title: Jewish Mysticism/Gershom Scholem
pagenum: 537; label: VIII.
title: FAITH AND FREEDOM; title: Faith and Freedom/Barbara Ward
pagenum: 549; title: The Spirit of Judaism/Abraham Heschel
pagenum: 559; title: The Foundations of Islamic Thought/Hamilton Gibb
pagenum: 567; title: The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy/Yu-lan Fung
pagenum: 576; title: The Social Principles of Jesus/Walter Rauschenbusch
pagenum: 586; title: Once to Every Man and Nation/James Russell Lowell
pagenum: 593; title: Autobiography/Mahatma Gandhi
pagenum: 597; title: Letter from Birmingham City Jail/Martin Luther King
pagenum: 606; title: Beauty Will Save the World/Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
pagenum: 623; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 631