Religion in the Making: Lowell Lectures 1926Alfred North Whitehead writes in the opening chapter of Religion in the Making, "it is my purpose... to consider the type of justification which is available for belief in doctrines of religion. This is a question which in some new form challenges each generation, it's the peculiarity of religion that humanity is always shifting its attitude towards it". This classic text in American philosophy by one of its foremost figures offers a concise analysis of the various factors in human nature which go toward forming a religion. It exhibits the inevitable transformation of religion with the transformation of knowledge and directs attention to the foundation of religion on our apprehension of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a stable order in the world, permanent elements apart from which there could be no changing world. |
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abstract actual entity actual fact actual world aesthetic Alfred North Whitehead antecedent apprehension belief Buddhism character Charles Hartshorne Christianity closest COMMUNITY complete concretion consciousness contrast CREATIVE PROCESS creatures David Ray Griffin definite depth of actuality Descartes descriptive METAPHYSICS determinate direct intuition divine doctrine dogmas emerge emotion entry epochal occasion evil existence expression feeling Fordham University formative elements FUSION glossary grading harmony human ideal forms ideas immanence immediate individual intensive quantity interpretation limited ment mental occasion mind mode Modern World moral nature of things Never explicitly defined notion novelty ontologies perceptivity philosophy physical occasion physical world possible principle problem of evil Process and Reality Process Philosophy rational religion realization relation relevance religious experience RIENCE ritual route self-valuation Semitic concept sense sion social solitariness synthesis temporal world term theology thought tion truth ture ultimate unity valuation vivid whereby Whitehead