488 Pages
by Routledge

482 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an attempt at a restatement of the traditional view of the relation of God to man. In opposition to humanism which proposes a religion of pure humanity, and to the theology of crisis which, so to speak, teaches a religion of pure Deity, it maintains a view of religion and theology which holds that the notions of humanity and Deity can not be separated without making them... Read more

Preface  1. Religio Perennis and Philosophia Perennis: God and Man in European Philosophy  2. The Language of Religion: The Word of Man and the Word of God  3. Religion and the Mythical Consciousness: The Myth as the Material of Religious Symbolism  4. Language and Logic in Theology: The Critique of Dogmatic Theory  5. Natural and Logical Witnesses for God: The Classical Theistic Argument and the Critique of Rational Theology  6. Natural and Logical Witnesses for God (continued): The Axiological Interpretation of the Theistic Argument  7. The Literal and the Symbolic in Religion: Symbolism as a Theological Principle  8. The Pronouncements of Religion: What Religion Really Says – The Philosophy of Creed  9. The Problem of Religious Knowledge: Intuition and Demonstration, Certitude and Evidence  10. Religion and Science: The Pronouncements of Science on Nature and on Man  11. Religion and Science in Contemporary Philosophy: The ‘New Understanding of the Limits of Science’  12. Religion and the Humanities: Theism and Humanism  13. Religion and Mysticism: What the Mystics Tell Us about Divine Things

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Wilbur Marshall Urban