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Historians Approach to Religion, An : Based on Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the years 1952 and 1953

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Outline: "The present book is an attempt to describe, not the personal religion of the author, but the glimpse of the Universe that his fellow-historians and he are able to catch from the point of view at which they arrive through following the historian's professional path.' Thus Arnold Toynbee defines his purpose in the opening chapter of this long-awaited book. With scholarly humanity he presents a clear and dramatic summing up of the conclusions to which three decades of research and study have inexorably led-conclusions which were unforeseen when he began his monumental ten-volume A Study of History in 1930. As Mr. Toynbee's work on the Study proceeded he found that Religion was at the center of the picture of human affairs taking shape in his mind, and in making his approach to History it became imperative to make a complementary approach to Religion. In his own life he reached a point at which the question 'What is our attitude towards Religion?' was calling for an answer too insistently for him to be able to ignore it any longer. In finding himself pursued by this question Mr. Toynbee believes he is having one of the characteristic experiences of the living generation in the Western World. 'We have been reminded of Religion by the quickening touch of Adversity; and this common experience is a serious call for a candid inquiry into the meaning of the glimpse of Reality that each of us obtains in the course of following this or that walk of life ... it might be forecast that, in the next chapter of the World's history, Mankind would seek compensation for the loss of much of its political, economic, and perhaps even domestic freedom by putting more of its treasure into its spiritual freedom, and that the public authorities would tolerate this inclination among their subjects in an age in which Religion had come to seem as harmless as Technology had seemed 300 years back.'

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290 T7564h c.1

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New York, USA : Oxford University Press., 1956

Deskripsi Fisik

318 hal

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English

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290

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Second Edition

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