Temptations of Religion

anger of morality attempt Bartleby become Bible biblical Catholic celestial spheres Christ Christian story Christian tradition Church claim community stories concern concrete consciousness conviction cosmic myths cosmic vanity cosmos created creation culture Daniel Berrigan demands divine doctrine drive toward transcendence earth embodied Enuma elish eschatology eternal return expression fact Flora Thompson function fundamental God's Gospels Hans Küng human existence individual insistence institutional order interpretation Israel Jerusalem Bible Jesus Kierkegaard knowledge limited literal live Marduk mediation medieval modern science objective Owen Barfield papal infallibility particular pattern Peter Berger pope present pride of history Protestant question religion religious certitude religious cosmology religious faith religious meaning resurrection revelation revelatory ritual sacred stories salvation secular self-transcendence sense social fictions social order socio-cultural world source of meaning spiritual Stephen Toulmin structure symbolic temptation Thorkild Jacobsen tion transcendent reality truth and value ultimate universe words Yves Congar