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...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

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...Preface: The preparation of this edition of Luther?s Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P. J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in March, 1937. The consultation had the twofold merit of definiteness and brevity. ?Luther is s...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... sexual origin refuted— All states of mind are neurally conditioned— Their significance must be tested not by their origin but by the value of their f... ...he value of con- ceptions— God’s metaphysical attributes have no practical significance— His moral attributes are proved by bad arguments; collapse of... ....”[56] The next condition of success is the apparent exist- ence, in large numbers, of minds who unite healthy- mindedness with readiness for regenera... ...ny rate as far as ever from being driven by science from the field to-day. Numbers of educated people still find it the directest experimental channel... ...e-goats have been superseded by sacrifices more spiritual in their nature. Judaism, Is- lam, and Buddhism get along without ritual sacrifice; so does ...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if ...

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