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The Pilgrimage of Faith - In the World of Modern Thought

1931

As I turn to my subject may I say at the outset that in prparing this series of lectures to be delivered in the intellectual center of a land which is of all lands I take it the one in which2 THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH IN MODERN THOUGHT intellectual interests come most distinctly to a focus in a religious philosophy of the world and of life I have taken the liberty of understanding the term C [...] This is in accord with Troeltsch's principle of seeking validity in religion as elsewhere not in a onsided empiricism and not in a one-sided rationalism but in Kantian fashion in a critical synthesis of empiricism and rationalism a harmony of the a priori and the actual of the rational with the extra-rational of the universal with the unique. [...] And such a God at once the transcendent Ideal Being worthy of a Gautama's worship and the immanent Presence revealed to the eye of faith in the spirit of unselfish love and the humanitarian service of a Gautama would have been—nay is—the very same God as many bearing another name have come to think of as essentially the God of the religious"4 THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH IN MODERN THOUGHT Conscio [...] Our own opinions are implicitly to bow before them.* At the present day this point of view is represented by the movement known as Fundamentalism " the first of whose " fundamentals " is the proposition " that the Holy Spirit did so inspire guide and move the writers of the Holy Scriptures as to keep them from error." With these words taken from the records of the General Assembly of the Presb [...] Something like this is the situation of the aditionalist in relation to the dogmatist in religion and it happens ot infrequently that the dogmatist is hampered in the dxercise of 's mental freedom almost as much by the implicit faith of his * The llinchi View of Life p. 87"36 TEM PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH IN MODERN THOUGHT followers as is the traditionalist by the authoritativeness of his masters.
philosophy religion
Pages
304
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142713
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Frontmatter
i-v Douglas Macintosh view
I. Introductory : The Quest for Universality in Religion
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II. The House Of Bondage : Traditionalism
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III. Escape To The Wilderness : Empiricism and the Will to Believe
39-56 unknown view
IV. In The Wildeeness Still : Ceitical Agnosticism and Moral Faith
57-73 unknown view
V. The Promised Land : Rational Idealism and Speculative Theology
74-126 unknown view
VI. The Threat of Captivity: Second Thoughts About Idealism
127-154 unknown view
VII. Exile: Peagmatism and Eeligious Values
155-179 unknown view
VIII. Homeward Bound: Repeesentational Peagmatism and Moeal Optimism
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IX. Beconstbucting the Temple : Critical Monism and a Scientific Theology
206-229 unknown view
X. Rebuilding the Walls : the New Metaphysics
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XI. Conclusion : Univeesal Religion
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Index
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