An Historian's Approach to Religion: Based on Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the Years 1952 and 1953This book is an attempt to describe, not the personal religion of the author, but the glimpse of the Universe that his fellow-historians and he are able to catch from the point of view at which they arrive through following the historian's professional path. |
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The Historians Point of View | 15 |
The Worship of Nature | 28 |
Moloch and Molk | 39 |
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Absolute Reality ancestral authority Bayle become belief bodhisattva Buddha Buddhist Catholic Chapter Chinese Chris Christian Church contemporary Dea Roma deified divine ecclesiastical Egyptian Emperor epiphany essence Eurasian Nomad faith feeling God's gospel governments Graeco-Roman Greek hearts Hellenic higher religions Hīnayāna Hinayanian Buddhist Hinduism historian Human Nature Ibid idolized imperial Indian intellectual Islam Jewish Judaic Judaism Late Modern Late Modern Western ligion living creature Love Mahāyāna Mahayanian Man-worship Man's Mankind means ment metaphysics military missionaries Modern Age Monophysite moral Nirvana Non-Human Nature non-Western oecumenical empire pagan parochial communities perhaps philosophers political practical Prophetic régime religious revolution Roman Empire Science secular self-centredness self-sufficiency seventeenth seventeenth-century Western social Society souls spiritual Sprat subconscious subjects successor-states Suffering technician Technology tion toleration traditional truth unique and final Universe vision West West's Western Christendom Western Christian Western Civilization Western World Yahweh Zoroastrianism