The Spiritual Interpretation of HistoryCosimo, Inc., 1 ott 2006 - 248 pagine Brimming with positive spirit and alive with the possibilities modernism, these lectures, written and delivered amid the unrest of World War I, explore from a new perspective the relentless drive of human history. Emphasizing the human aspect of everything civilization has achieved-and the human aspects that have held it back-American theologian and divinity school dean SHAILER MATHEWS (1863-1941) discusses how everything from individual personalities to moral, religious, and artistic ideals can also serve as engines of change apart from the more typically considered economic and military ones. First published in 1916 (this is a replica of the 1919 third edition), this inspiring and insightful book will intrigue history buffs and philosophers of the human condition. |
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Pagina 7 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Pagina vii - The object of the founder of the Lectures is to continue the mission of William Belden Noble, whose supreme desire it was to extend the influence of Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life ; to make known the meaning of the words of Jesus, ' I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.' In accordance with the large interpretation of the Influence of Jesus by the late Phillips Brooks, with whose religious teaching he in whose memory the Lectures are established...