The Great ideas today, 1967
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief
Contributors: Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961; Gardner, John, 1933- tr
Publisher: William Benton publisher, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Distributed to the trade by Praeger
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Chicago; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Other titles: Eclipse of God.; What is life?; Sir Gawain and the green knight.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Should Christianity be secularized? : a symposium: Why Christianity must be secularized / Harvey Cox; title: Why Christianity should not be secularized / E.L. Mascall; title: Does secular theology have a future? / Martin E. Marty; title: The need for a theology of the world / M.D. Chenu; title: The idea of religion in Great Books of the Western World. Part II. The year's developments in the arts and sciences: Music, painting, and sculpture / Roy McMullen; title: The physical sciences / Stephen Toulmin; title: The biological sciences / Theodore Puck; title: Theology / Langdon B. Gilkey. Part III. The contemporary status of a great idea: The idea of happiness / V.J. McGill. Part IV. Additions to the Great Books library: Eclipse of God / Martin Buber; title: What is life? / Erwin Schrödinger; title: Sir Gawain and the green knight / [John Gardner, tr.].