 I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any one of us may make to the religious appeal. God himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from...  The Dial - 第 366 頁由 編輯 - 1896完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Patrick Deneen - 2009 - 389 頁
...raising the question of whether God is finally created in the image of man: "I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not...vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity."119 Divinity itself as the result of human intention, will, and, finally, faith is a theme... | |
 | Jeff Jordan - 2006 - 241 頁
...about the states. In his 1895 essay, 'Is Life Worth Living?' he writes: 'I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not...of us may make to the religious appeal. God himself may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity.' See 'Is Life Worth Living?'... | |
 | Robert D. Richardson - 2006 - 660 頁
...theology, that God needs man as much as man needs God. "I confess," James writes, "that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not...vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity."5 At the close of the essay, James swings the argument back to his own testimony, his own... | |
 | Terryl L. Givens - 2007 - 432 頁
...philosophers and psychologists. (He had drawn support from William James's speculation that "God himself may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity" for his point that it is no blasphemy to speak of "God's need of man.") Now, in the scientific realm, he... | |
 | Herbert F. Vetter - 2007 - 123 頁
...Pluralistic Universe. There we find these words expressing this philosopher's vision of God: God himself may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life may mean, if they mean anything short... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1916 - 466 頁
...wholesomeness. At its strongest, this subjectivism becomes Mr. William James's creative will. " I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not...strength and increase of very being from our fidelity." At its weakest, this humanism implies that it may be a good thing to act as though what we would like... | |
 | Edward Arthur White - 1952 - 132 頁
...needs, it derives also as a construct of human activity. "I confess," James wrote, "that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not...response which any one of us may make to the religious appeal."19 He thought of human personality as creative, as participating with God through activity... | |
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