The Conduct of LifeDiscusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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... Schweitzer's early studies was an intimate ex- amination of the life of Jesus , whom he rescued from the fashionable impugners and devaluators by a more rigorous use of the very historic method they had used for deflating him . This ...
... Schweitzer's early studies was an intimate ex- amination of the life of Jesus , whom he rescued from the fashionable impugners and devaluators by a more rigorous use of the very historic method they had used for deflating him . This ...
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... Schweitzer urged a return to the generous cosmopolitan humanism of the eighteenth century . Here is an indication of Schweitzer's intuitive grasp . Though he himself followed the way of Jesus , he recognized the original limita- tions ...
... Schweitzer urged a return to the generous cosmopolitan humanism of the eighteenth century . Here is an indication of Schweitzer's intuitive grasp . Though he himself followed the way of Jesus , he recognized the original limita- tions ...
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... Schweitzer characteristically owes a great debt to Hindu religion no less than to Chinese philosophy : for it is from Hinduism , rather than from Christianity , that Schweitzer consciously or unconsciously derived his central ethical ...
... Schweitzer characteristically owes a great debt to Hindu religion no less than to Chinese philosophy : for it is from Hinduism , rather than from Christianity , that Schweitzer consciously or unconsciously derived his central ethical ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
The Emergence of the Divine | 68 |
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