1st Edition

The Historical Element in Religion Lewis Fry Lectures

By Clement C.J. Webb Copyright 1935
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1935, The Historical Element in Religion explains the Historical Element as arising from the religious man’s interest in the past of a community of which in his religious life he feels himself to be a part, so that its past is, although not remembered by him as an individual, yet in a real sense his own. It is thus not a disinterested scientific curiosity in the past as such,... Read more

1. The nature of the historical element in religion  2. The place of the historical element in religion  3. The depreciation of the historical element in religion  4. The significance of the historical element in religion  5. A supplementary chapter

Biography

Clement C.J. Webb was an English theologian and philosopher.