The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience

Author: William James

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13: 1877527467

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Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Politics, Theology and History
Politics, Theology and History

Author: Raymond Plant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-01-29

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780521438810

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This book examines the moral foundations of liberal societies through the role of Christian belief in public policy.

Offenders for a Word
Offenders for a Word

Author: Daniel C. Peterson

Publisher: Maxwell Institute

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780934893350

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This book reveals the tactics many anti-Mormons employ in attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In clear, straightforward terms, the authors explain the true beliefs of the church and how to see through the word games that critics use to attack it. Offenders for a Word answers critics' objections to Latter-day Saint beliefs regarding the Godhead, polygamy, salvation by grace and works, eternal progression, the premortal existence, the role of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the nature of the Holy Ghost, and much more.