| Salvation is from? Contributor(s): Engelbrecht, Dave (Author) |
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ISBN: 1095873458 ISBN-13: 9781095873458 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $45.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Education |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6" W x 9" (1.54 lbs) 482 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Religious acts incorporate a history. The intellectual life of the present is the heritage of the beliefs and doubts, hopes and fears, of the past. We think over again the religious expressions of our ancestors, with such variations only as due to the general extended culture which is the product of intellectual variations. Religious thoughts inclines parallel with growth, subsequently the inclination is, for the most part, a slow process. Beliefs are tenacious, and non religious beliefs are more tenacious than religious beliefs. This is because religion embraces gods and devils, conjecture man of his place in and relation to the world and the lives and moves of his being; teaches the necessity of holding certain beliefs regarding these things, and because it appeals fundamentally to man's emotions, hopes, delights, fears, and pains in another world afterwards. These features of religious belief give religion a universal interest. All men are interested in religion. They are interested in it because of its immense domination in the lives of humanity; and through countless ages mankind lived and thought and suffered almost entirely within the perimeters of religious sanctions; intellectual progress in many cases results in contempt of religious supremacy; because the whole range of the scientific culture of our time regarding man and the universe is a challenge to, and by, the religious notions descends to us from the distant past. Accordingly, the Christian and the Deist, the Theosophist and the Spiritualist, the Agnostic and the Atheist, are equally interested, though every one forms a different point of view in the story of humanity's religious beliefs. "Without a feeble knowledge of man's past, his present is difficult to comprehend. Yesterday's beliefs are keys to the doors of to-day's thoughts. From what yesterday's religion was, the religion of today has become, and on the foundations we lay down, whether flimsy or secure, the superstructure of tomorrow's thought will rise and the challenge of the winds of stressful storms of science represents the assessment whether the foundation is sturdy enough supporting the entire structure. |