The Evolution of the Idea of God [Spiral-bound]

Grant Allen (Author)

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Spiral-bound: 157 pages
Publisher: Health Research (September 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0787300225
ISBN-13: 978-0787300227
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

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I PROPOSE in this work to trace out in rough outline the evolution of the idea of God from its earliest and crudest beginnings in the savage mind of primitive man to that highly evolved and abstract form which it finally assumes in contemporary philosophical and theological thinking. Read the first page

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Robertson Smith, New Guinea, Herbert Spencer, Holy Ghost, Major Conder, Tombs of the Kings, William Simpson, Deified Man, Duff Macdonald, The Golden Bough, Rock of Israel, Sidney Hartland, Asia Minor, New Hebrides, Hebrew Jahweh, Khond Meriah, Lower Syria, Principles of Sociology, Professor Smith, Roman Catholic, Sir William Hunter, Upper Egypt, West Africa, Westminster Abbey, Book of the Dead

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This book cites 9 books:

The Principles of Sociology (3 Vol. Set) by Herbert Spencer on 5 pages
Religion of the Semites by William Robertson Smith in Front Matter, page 150, and page 214
The Legend of Perseus: A Study of Tradition in Story Custom and Belief by Edwin Sidney Hartland in Front Matter, page 47, and page 388
Ethnology in Folklore by George Laurence Gomme on page 288, and page 290
Upper Egypt by C.B. Klunzinger on page 311

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