George Bernard Shaw, His Religion & Values
Author : Dayananda Pathak
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Christian drama, English
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Author : Dayananda Pathak
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Christian drama, English
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Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0795346875
From the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Pygmalion and Saint Joan, a collection of his critical writings on religion. The Critical Shaw: On Religion is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s pronouncements—many of them deliberately inflammatory—on all facets of religion and belief: on Christianity and the Church; on various religions, among them Protestantism, Catholicism, Quakerism, Christian Science, Fundamentalism, Calvinism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Islam; on atheism and agnosticism, atonement and salvation; the crucifixion, the resurrection, transubstantiation, and the Immaculate Conception; on the Bible, the Ten Commandments, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglican Church. And much more. In speeches, essays, and prefaces, Shaw relentlessly scrutinized and critiqued scores of religions—only to find most of their doctrines in need of exhaustive reform. And yet, in keeping with his many other paradoxes, though Shaw was fond of calling himself an atheist, he nonetheless recognized the importance, indeed the necessity, of religion. The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Dramatists, Irish
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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "On the Prospects of Christianity" (Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion) by Bernard Shaw. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Stuart Eddy Baker
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813024325
In this book on George Bernard Shaw's philosophy of religion, Stuart Baker examines Shaw's insistence that a religion for the contemporary world must be a true guide to daily living, as well as consistent with science. Baker concludes that Shaw was right and presents Shaw's arguments in analytical, logical, and scientific terms. Where previous work on Shaw's religious thought approaches the subject from the point of view of traditional religion, this study approaches his unusual religious ideas on their own terms, which differ from those of either traditional faith or modern atheistic materialism. Baker supports Shaw's contention that his metaphysical principles provide a more solid foundation for ethics and progressive politics than do most alternatives. Baker also endorses Shaw's belief that the scientific principles of rigorousness, logic, and analytical thinking bear out his argument that teleological principles are at work in the world and that the universe can be said to have a will that could be the subject of careful scientific investigation.
Author : Stuart E. BAKER
Publisher : Orange Grove Text Plus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781616101060
"Not since Eric Bentley's Bernard Shaw has there been a book on GBS that takes him seriously in the three areas of Life Force, Civil Organization, and Economy. But much more than that, this is a book that takes on reductionist science and brilliantly marshals arguments to defend human consciousness against such total materialism."--Daniel Leary, professor emeritus, City College of New York In this book on George Bernard Shaw's philosophy of religion, Stuart Baker examines Shaw's insistence that a religion for the contemporary world must be a true guide to daily living, as well as consistent with science. Baker concludes that Shaw was right and presents Shaw's arguments in analytical, logical, and scientific terms. Where previous work on Shaw's religious thought approaches the subject from the point of view of traditional religion, this study approaches his unusual religious ideas on their own terms, which differ from those of either traditional faith or modern atheistic materialism. Baker supports Shaw's contention that his metaphysical principles provide a more solid foundation for ethics and progressive politics than do most alternatives. Even more controversially, Baker endorses Shaw's belief that the scientific principles of rigorousness, logic, and analytical thinking bear out his argument that teleological principles are at work in the world and that the universe can be said to have a will that could be the subject of careful scientific investigation. Stuart E. Baker, professor of theater at Florida State University.
Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 1909
Category :
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Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486113124
Einstein's essays explore science as the basis for a "cosmic" religion, embraced by all who share a sense of wonder in the universe. Additional topics include pacifism, disarmament, and Zionism.
Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
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Author : George Whitehead
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
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