Man Is Not Alone
A Philosophy of Religion
ISBN10: 0374513287
ISBN13: 9780374513283
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320 Pages
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Man Is Not Alone is a profound, beautifully written examination of the ingredients of piety: how man senses God's presence, explores it, accepts it, and builds life upon it. Abraham Joshua Heschel's philosophy of religion is not a philosophy of doctrine or the interpretation of a dogma. He erects his carefully built structure of thought upon foundations which are universally valid but almost generally ignored. It was Man Is Not Alone which led Reinhold Niebuhr accurately to predict that Heschel would "become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America." With its companion volume, God in Search of Man, it is revered as a classic of modern theology.
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Man is Not Alone
I. THE PROBLEM OF GOD
1 The Sense of the Ineffable
THE AWARENESS OF GRANDEUR
There are three aspects of nature which command man's attention: power, loveliness, grandeur. Power he exploits,...