The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance
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The purpose of this book is positive and constructive, although it may not at first appear such to the reader whose inherited beliefs are freely challenged. But let the reader ponder the fact that the deepest spiritual life has always concerned itself with the appreciation and maintenance of values. He who acknowledges, and wishes to further, human values cannot be said to be irreligious or unspiritual."The center of gravity of religion has been openly changing for some time now from supernaturalism to what may best be called a humanistic naturalism. The history of this change is traced in man...
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- THE NEXT STEP IN RELIGION
- AN ESSAY TOWARD THE COMING RENAISSANCE
- ROY WOOD SELLARS, Ph.D.
- New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved
- TO HELEN STALKER SELLARS THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- THE NEXT STEP IN RELIGION
- CHAPTER I SUGGESTIONS
- CHAPTER II THE AGE OF MYTH
- CHAPTER III STORIES OF CREATION
- CHAPTER IV MAGIC AND RITUAL
- CHAPTER V THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER VI THE PROPHET OF NAZARETH
- CHAPTER VII THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER VIII THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
- CHAPTER IX THE LIMITS OF PERSONAL AGENCY
- CHAPTER X DO MIRACLES HAPPEN?
- CHAPTER XI THE SOUL AND IMMORTALITY
- CHAPTER XII THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
- CHAPTER XIII RELIGION AND ETHICS
- CHAPTER XIV THE CHURCH AS AN INSTITUTION—THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- CHAPTER XV THE CHURCH AS AN INSTITUTION—PROTESTANTISM
- CHAPTER XVI THE HUMANIST'S RELIGION
- INDEX
- The Bible at a Single View
- With an Appendix on How to Read the Bible BY RICHARD G. MOULTON, Editor of The Modern Reader's Bible
- THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers — 64-66 Fifth Avenue — New York
- This Life and the Next
- THE EFFECT ON THIS LIFE OF FAITH IN ANOTHER BY P. T. FORSYTH
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- Religion, Its Prophets and False Prophets
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- Religious Hand Books
- New Horizon of State and Church By W. H. P. FAUNCE
- The Christian Man, the Church and the War BY ROBERT E. SPEER
- The Assurance of Immortality BY HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
- The Church and the Man BY DONALD HANKEY
- Are You Human? BY WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE
- The Best Man I Know BY WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE
- It's All in the Day's Work BY HENRY CHURCHILL KING
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