Research Catalog

Title

The twilight of Christianity, by Harry Elmer Barnes ...

Author

Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968.

Publication

New York, The Vanguard Press [©1929]

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Details

Description

3 preliminary leaves, v-xi, 470 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Since 1900
• Christianity > Controversial literature
• Religion and science > 1900-
• Religion
• Humanism
• Supernatural
• Religion
• Humanism
• religion (discipline)
• humanism
• supernatural
• Christianity
• Religion and science
• Supernatural
• Christianity > Controversial literature

Genre/Form

Controversial literature

Bibliography (note)

• "Selected references" at the end of each chapter.

Contents

I. Cultural contrasts -- Is religion out of date? -- Cultural contrasts -- The religious revolution of today -- Who is qualified to discuss the religious problem? -- The "old stuff" argument -- II. What price religion -- Is the religious issue and academic problem? -- How great are the evils which religion able to accomplish? -- The religious attitude -- Effect on intellectual life -- Religion and political institutions -- Religion and the law -- Religion and modern business -- The menace of religion to sound sexology -- How religion affects education -- Religion and journalism -- Religion and art -- Orthodoxy as the mob policeman -- III. How mankind got religion -- Some definitions -- Phases of the religious complex -- Leading stages in the origin of religion -- The Christian epic -- IV. God's word -- The Bible the foundation of western religions -- The orthodox view of the Holy Bible -- The essential facts in regard to the Hebrew and Christian Bible -- The Bible and modern life -- V. The faith of our fathers living still -- The orthodox view of nature, God, man and life -- Leading cultural fossils in orthodoxy -- Is orthodoxy a man of straw and a bogy of the skeptic? -- VI. Blasting at the rock of ages -- Aspects of modern knowledge which have undermined traditional religion -- The crumbling of orthodoxy -- Excavating the fossils of religious orthodoxy -- VII. Sanctuary versus laboratory -- Is the conflict of science with religion or theology? -- Catholicism and science -- Protestant fundamentalism and science -- Devout modernism and science -- Advanced modernism and the scientific point of view -- Miscellaneous groups -- Modern scientists as liberal theologians -- VIII. The Jesus stereotype -- The importance of the Jesus question in religious reconstruction -- Was Jesus an historic figure? -- The ministry of Jesus in modern perspective -- IX. Religion in a secular age -- The case of religion in the modern world -- What religion must abandon to command respect and confidence today -- The new perspective and religious readjustment -- Churches in the new religious and cultural order -- Should we regret the passing of the old religious order?

LCCN

29021377

OCLC

• ocm02517083
• 2517083
• SCSB-330893

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library