Reason and Religion (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Rupp, Julius

 
9781333855024: Reason and Religion (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Explore how reason and faith meet in the oldest questions about God, truth, and the life of the spirit. This volume examines how the concept of God arose with human thought, and how naming the divine opened new realms for understanding, morality, and liberty. It questions familiar beliefs about revelation, superstition, and the power of language, offering a clear, accessible look at how faith can be lived with reason.

Readers will encounter a thoughtful discussion of how people have imagined God, how the sanctification of God’s name has been used or misused, and why truth must be sought from within. The book contrasts two widespread views of truth and explains why the journey to understanding is a personal, reflective task—not something handed down from above.




  • How language helped humanity reach beyond the material world to a broader sense of life

  • A critical look at religious authority and the idea of external revelation

  • Arguments for a personal, inward pursuit of truth and moral knowledge

  • Clarifying distinctions between absolute and relative truth in modern thinking



Ideal for readers curious about the roots of religious belief, the role of reason in faith, and how philosophy can illuminate spiritual life.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Reseña del editor

Excerpt from Reason and Religion
In his preface to this last-named work, and in two treatises on Pedagogy, Dr. Rupp (koenigsberg, 1842) shows that the weakness of our age in matters of moral organisation and the indifference concerning re ligious affairs, the absence of, at least, all connected efforts in this respect, could be remedied only, in view of a religious education, by promoting the establish ment of religious communities among the people.
In the year 1842, Dr. Rupp was appointed Divi sions Prediger, he. Chaplain for the Garrison of Koenigsberg, a high position in a country where the army ranks as high as it does in Prussia. At this time, owing to his high character and the uncommon power of his eloquence, he had a large circle of fervent adherents. The Church of the Castle (the Old and venerable Church in which all the Kings of Prussia have been crowned, and which was built by the German knights) could scarcely hold the number of his hearers, some Of whom were men of science who had hitherto appeared entirely devoid of religious feeling. Through all Dr. Rupp's sermons of that period, as well as in the subsequent series, runs the idea that Christianity, such at least as Jesus had really conceived it, was the belief in humanity. If we may explain the idea In our own words, we should qualify it thus: humanity called to prove its divine origin by a life divine. He held that the words son Of man, and son of God.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título