The Secular mind : transformations of faith in modern Europe : essays presented to Franklin L. Baumer / edited by W. Warren Wagar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagar, W. Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Holmes & Meier, 1982.

Contents:

Introduction / W. Warren Wagar

Isaac Newton's Theologiae gentilis origines philosophicae / Richard S. Westfall

Secularization in British thought, 1730-1789 / David Spadafora

Superstition, impiety, and an enlightened legal order: the theological politics of the Abbé Mably / John Frederick Logan

Private faith and public religion: S.T. Coleridge's confrontation with secularism / John T. Miller, Jr.

Victorian ethics of belief / Frank M. Turner and Jeffrey von Arx

Proudhon and Morale indépendante / Phyllis H. Stock

Freud contra Ecclesiam: rhetorical structures in the Future of an illusion / David Pace

Transformations in pacifist consciousness in England, 1914-1939 / Joyce A. Berkman

"Who dies if England lives?": Christianity and the moral vision of George Orwell / James Connors

The twentieth-century revolt against time: belief and becoming in the thought of Berdyaev, Eliot, Huxley, and Jung / Douglas K. Wood

In complicity with words: the asymptotic consciousness of E. M. Cioran / Michael W. Messmer

World's end: secular eschatologies in modern fiction / W. Warren Wagar.

Notes:

Incudes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0841907668 :

OCLC:

7976997