Theism and Humanism / Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914
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In 1962, Christian Century asked the well-known Christian writer, C. S. Lewis, to name the books that had most influenced his thought. Among those that Lewis listed was Arthur J. Balfour's Theism and Humanism (1915). This was no passing whim. Almost twenty years earlier, in 1944, Lewis had lamented in "Is Theology Poetry" that Theism was "a book too little read." Many others shared Lewis' enthusiasm. When Balfour gave the original lectures on which the book was based, some 2,000 people crowded into Bute Hall at the University of Glasgow on a weekday winter afternoons to cheer and laugh. Even m...
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- THEISM AND HUMANISM
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART I INTRODUCTORY
- LECTURE I
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- LECTURE II
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- PART II ÆSTHETIC AND ETHICAL VALUES
- LECTURE III ÆSTHETIC AND THEISM
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- LECTURE IV ETHICS AND THEISM
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- PART III INTELLECTUAL VALUES
- LECTURE V INTRODUCTION TO PART III
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- LECTURE VI PERCEPTION, COMMON SENSE, AND SCIENCE
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- LECTURE VII PROBABILITY, CALCULABLE AND INTUITIVE
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- LECTURE VIII UNIFORMITY AND CAUSATION
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- LECTURE IX TENDENCIES OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF
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- NOTE
- PART IV SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- LECTURE X SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
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- FOOTNOTES:
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