| William James - 1902 - 558 pagine
...TOJ:>e converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain arTassurance, are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual or sudden, by~ \vttich_j_jel£J'iii.liei lu divided, and consciously wrong inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and... | |
| Stafford Harry Northcote Saint Cyres (viscount) - 1910 - 464 pagine
...at conversion. ' To be converted, to receive grace, to experience religion,' says William James, ' are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual...unified and consciously right, superior, and happy.' How is this result attained ? Perhaps the best answer will be found in modern theories of subliminal... | |
| Gilbert Cunningham Joyce - 1910 - 212 pagine
...evident. The analogy is much more than superficial. ' To be converted, to receive grace, ... to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process,...and consciously wrong, inferior, and unhappy becomes consciously right, superior, and happy in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious truth.' l Such... | |
| John Leonidas Rosser - 1916 - 120 pagine
...omitted, his conversion answers well to Professor William James' description of that change as a process "by which a self hitherto divided and consciously...unified and consciously right, superior and happy." I. His conversion made him a Christian both in belief and spiritual experience. Whether or not Paul... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - 1920 - 390 pagine
...regarded as Religious Conversion that we have to deal. Dr. W. James thus describes it as being either " gradual or sudden, by which a self, hitherto divided and consciously wrong, infirm, and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right, superior and happy, in consequence of its... | |
| Mary G. Dietz - 1988 - 228 pagine
...(W1951b:70). But if we are to consider James' more provocative statement that conversion is a "process ... by which a self hitherto divided and consciously wrong,...unified and consciously right, superior, and happy . . . ," then the dramatic nature of Weil's conversion must be qualified (James 1958:162), for there... | |
| Geoffrey Galt Harpham - 1992 - 344 pagine
...William James: To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process,...which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong 93 inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right superior and happy, in consequence of... | |
| James Mandrell - 2010 - 332 pagine
...hence, leads to the Hermano Juan of the end of the novel. Rather than a conversion, James's process "by which a self hitherto divided and consciously...unified and consciously right superior and happy," rather than the "profound tranformation" ironically mentioned in the prologue to the novel, Azorin's... | |
| Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi - 1992 - 234 pagine
...years ago: "To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process,...gradual or sudden, by which a self hitherto divided, consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right, superior and happy"... | |
| Kimberly Rae Connor - 1994 - 332 pagine
...unifying a divided self. James begins a chapter on conversion with the following classic definition: "To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace,...and consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, becomes consciously right, superior and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities.... | |
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