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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974435903321

Autore

Dewey John <1859-1952.>

Titolo

A common faith / / John Dewey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, [1991]

ISBN

0-300-17346-6

0-585-36793-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 pages)

Collana

A Yale paperbound  A common faith

Disciplina

200

Soggetti

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the Terry lectures delivered at Yale University.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction by Thomas M. Alexander -- I: Religion Versus the Religious -- II: Faith and Its Object -- III: The Human Abode of the Religious Function

Sommario/riassunto

One of America's greatest philosophers outlines a faith that is not confined to sect, class, or race. Dr. Dewey calls for the emancipation of the true religious quality from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that characterizes historical religions. He describes a positive, practical, and dynamic faith, verified and supported by the intellect and evolving with the progress of social and scientific knowledge. "The pure distillation of the thought of a great mind on the great subject of religion."-John Haynes Holmes, New York Herald Tribune