Source of Human Good - Softcover

Wieman, Henry Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809301172 ISBN 13: 9780809301171

Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1946

Synopsis

A creative theory of value by a famous Christian scholar, well known for his many outstanding contributions to the study of Christian doctrine, Mr. Wieman's book has been widely acclaimed as a new approach to the problem of good and evil in our time.

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About the Author

Henry Nelson Wieman (1884-1975), a pastor, scholar, and teacher, was an American pragmatic theologian originally trained at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He also studied with philosophers Rudolph Eucken at Jena and Wilhelm Windelband and Ernst Troeltsch at Heidelberg. His teaching career included positions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the New School in New York City, the University of Oregon, the University of West Virginia, and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Among his many publications, The Source of Human Good is one of his best known.

Review

"Wieman's depiction of the four-fold structure of creative energy remains a milestone in modern religious thought. Even readers who doubt the objective reality of the structure Wieman claims to have found in experience will appreciate the powerful alternative his empirical method and naturalist
ontology brought to philosophy of religion. The Source of Human Good still speaks to all those for whom the divine signifies something more than human ideals, values, and aspirations."--Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
"At mid-century Henry Nelson Wieman not only penned a theological classic, he pointed the way to an end-of-the century reconstruction. His naturalism, pragmatism, revisionism, and respect for mystery are blunt, American, and still evocative. He opened doors through which many of today's religious
thinkers will not only pass, but will pass while in heated debate with Wieman."--William Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Wieman's depiction of the four-fold structure of creative energy remains a milestone in modern religious thought. Even readers who doubt the objective reality of the structure Wieman claims to have found in experience will appreciate the powerful alternative his empirical method and naturalist
ontology brought to philosophy of religion. The Source of Human Good still speaks to all those for whom the divine signifies something more than human ideals, values, and aspirations."--Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
"At mid-century Henry Nelson Wieman not only penned a theological classic, he pointed the way to an end-of-the century reconstruction. His naturalism, pragmatism, revisionism, and respect for mystery are blunt, American, and still evocative. He opened doors through which many of today's religious
thinkers will not only pass, but will pass while in heated debate with Wieman."--William Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College
"Wieman's depiction of the four-fold structure of creative energy remains a milestone in modern religious thought. Even readers who doubt the objective reality of the structure Wieman claims to have found in experience will appreciate the powerful alternative his empirical method and naturalist
ontology brought to philosophy of religion. The Source of Human Good still speaks to all those for whom the divine signifies something more than human ideals, values, and aspirations."--Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College
"At mid-century Henry Nelson Wieman not only penned a theological classic, he pointed the way to an end-of-the century reconstruction. His naturalism, pragmatism, revisionism, and respect for mystery are blunt, American, and still evocative. He opened doors through which many of today's religious
thinkers will not only pass, but will pass while in heated debate with Wieman."--William Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1946
• ISBN 10: 0809301172
• ISBN 13: 9780809301171
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312