| Anxiety, Guilt and Freedom: Religious Studies Perspectives (Essays in Honor of Donald Gard) Contributor(s): Hubbard, Benjamin J. (Author), Starr, Bradley E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819176834 ISBN-13: 9780819176837 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $111.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 291.22 |
| LCCN: 89-29008 |
| Physical Information: 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Discusses three concepts crucial to an understanding of the nature of religion: anxiety, guilt, and freedom. The various essays examine these from the viewpoint of several different religious traditions, movements and thinkers. Contents: Editor's Preface. Donald Gard: A Personal Perspective. Part I. Guiltless Morality; The Family of Changing Woman: Nature and Women in Navaho Thought; The Sacraments as "Fear-provoking" and "Awe-inspiring" Rites in the Greek Fathers; The Doctrine of Karma; Two Concepts of Predestination in Current Islamic Thought. Part II. The Spirit of Medieval Penitents; The Evolution of Freedom as Catholicity in Catholic Ethics; Agape and the Liberation Movements. Part III. Calvin's Idea of Freedom in the Ethics of Schleiermacher and Barth; Creativity and Freedom in the Thought of Martin Buber; The Liberating Visions of C. G. Jung; 'The World's Most Perverse Habit'; Appendix: Study Questions. |