Understanding and believing
By: essays by Joachim Wach. Edited with an introd. by Joseph M. Kitagawa.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Harper torchbooks, TB1399
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Wach, Joachim, 1898-1955 -- Bibliography; Religion -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: The self-understanding of modern man.; title: Stefan George; poet and priest of modern paganism.; title: The problem of death in modern philosophy.; title: General revelation and the religions of the world.; title: The paradox of the gospel.; title: Redeemer of man.; title: Seeing and believing.; title: Belief and witness.; title: The meaning and task of the history of religions.; title: Religious commitment and tolerance.; title: The problem of truth in religion.; title: The Christian professor.; title: The crisis in the university.; title: Hugo of St. Victor on virtues and vices.; title: To a rabbi friend.; title: On felicity.; title: A prayer.; title: Bibliography of Joachim Wach, 1922-55 (p. 188-196)