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The Modern Predicament

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The Modern Predicament
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Preface
Chapter I | Philosophy and Religion
Chapter II | The Linguistic Veto
Chapter III | The Theological Veto
Chapter V | Religious Aberration
Chapter VI | The Way of Negation
Chapter VII | Intellectual Impediments
Chapter VIII | Responses
Chapter IX | The Way of Experience
Chapter X | The Mystic Way
Chapter XI | I and Thou
Chapter XII | The Argument from Perfection
Chapter XIII | The Argument from Imperfection
Chapter XIV | The World and Its Design
Chapter XV | The Appeal to History
Chapter XVI | The Philosophers' World
Chapter XVII | Man and His Experience
Chapter XVIII | The Limits of Knowledge
Chapter XIX | The Good Man
Chapter XX | Science and Ethics
Chapter XXI | Morality and Religion
Chapter XXII | Grace
Chapter XXIII | The World and God
Chapter XXIV | Man and God
Chapter XXV | The Modern Predicament
George Allen and Unwin
London
1955

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