An historian's approach to religion : based on Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the years 1952 and 1953 / Arnold Toynbee
1956, 2nd edition. London ; New York : Oxford University Press. Provenance: Bookplate of William Margulies. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388953
Physical description; 316 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; The historian's point of view -- The worship of nature -- Man-worship: the idolization of parochial communities -- Man-worship: the idolization of an oecumenical community -- Man-worship: the idolization of a self-sufficient philosopher -- The epiphany of the higher religions -- Encounters between higher religions and idolized oecumenical empires -- The diversion of higher religions from their spiritual mission to mundane tasks -- Encounters between higher religions and philosophies -- The idolization of religious institutions -- The ascendancy of the Modern Western civilization -- The world's rejection of the Early Modern Western Christianity -- The breakdown of the Western Christian way of life and the seventeenth-century Western reaction against the West's Christian heritage -- The seventeenth-century secularization of Western life -- The world's reception of a secularized late Modern Western civilization -- The re-erection of two Graeco-Roman idols -- The idolization of the invincible technician -- The religious outlook in a twentieth-century world -- The task of disengaging the essence from the non-essentials in mankind's religious heritage -- Selves, suffering, self-centredness, and love. Subjects; Toynbee, Arnold 1889-1975. Religion. Civilization History.
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