Modern Belief in Immortality
Author | : Newman Smyth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Newman Smyth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Newman Smyth |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2015-07-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515059011 |
The belief in immortality precedes modern science in human experience. It means more in the spiritual life and progress of the race. The limitation of physical science has been that in the enthusiasm of its discoveries it has so closed the material and forces of the universe as to exclude immortality. We have made a great deal of the service of science to theology, but here we see the debt being more than paid by the scientific theologian who thinks evolutionary ideas through and helps science to see itself in some of its deeper and larger aspects. Dr. Smyth starts from the soul's sense of its own survival value. He shows how progressing science supports this conviction in its new Conception of the soul as a center and source of energy. The question of immortality becomes, therefore, not whether the soul entity of the Older thought can maintain its existence, but whether an integrated living energy can cease to be. The writer shows how the soul shapes and uses matter in continuous embodiment. From these proved facts of continuity and embodiment he goes on to the greater fact of a continuing process of embodiment unbroken by death because involved in the very nature of life as life is revealed by science. One excellence in the book is the naturalness and even unconsciousness with which its thought passes from the scientific to the spiritual, blending them into one as in the writer's mind science and spiritual truth make one seamless garment clothing the soul in immortality. The book is compressed thought abounding in suggestion, and will repay many readings. It is as complete a statement in small compass of the rational and spiritual faith in immortality as has appeared. -Yale Divinity News, Vol. 5 [1908]
Author | : Newman Smyth |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781497820715 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.
Author | : James Henry Leuba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : God |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Newman Smyth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adam Gollner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1439109435 |
An exploration of one of the most universal human obsessions charts the rise of longevity science from its alchemical beginnings to modern-day genetic interventions and enters the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality.
Author | : Newman Smyth |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781528450409 |
Excerpt from Modern Belief in Immortality This little book had its origin in a lecture which was given on the Drew foundation at Hackney Col lege of the University of London. It has since been recast and enlarged in order that in this form it may reach the general public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : James Henry Snowden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James H. Snowden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494033781 |
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Author | : Eugene Fontinell |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0823283135 |
Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual persons are immortal. Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.