An exploration of the search for meaning in life. This work argues that the nature of reason expresses itself in an ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. It holds that this need constitutes the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense, it claims, that it leads one to desire that the answer to life's mystery might reveal itself in some way. The book challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our "essential selves", breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, it focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to comprehend and affirm reality in all of its dimensions.
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Overwhelmingly natural, I'd call this book. You get pleasantly surprised at the description of yourself in such a relieving (really liberating) way. That is a mighty surprise in these days! And, however, since it does describe you, it's... wholly natural, as if somehow you've always had known it. Well, but could it be any other way?Exploring a "religious sense" in us, such as our olfactory, visual or auditive sense, it starts by making methodological clarifications, concerning realism, reason, and the pertinence of morality in the use of reason. And then it plunges into you. For these reasons, it's something to be read by any kind of folks: whether religious or not, christian, jew, muslim, agnostic, whatever! I've known people of all of these beliefs who've read it and loved it. Magnificent!
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A guidebook to life. Explains the basic religious nature of man's interaction with reality and calls on the reader to examine his/her experience to see if it coincides with his observations. This book has changed many lives, mine included, and hopefully will continue to explain to many of the deep longing, indeed the 'great question', that lies at the foundations of each human heart. One of the handful of 'essential books' in existence.
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I read this book 3 times. The first 2 times I read it too quickly to fully appreciate it. So the third time, I took my time and compared what I was reading to my honest experience... not as someone bought into a Catholic idealogy, but someone open to his experience... Now, I want everyone I meet to read this book. If you take your time, and not read it already claiming which side you are on, the book can take you on a wrenching spirtual journey... 1 that you'll be glad to take. In fact, it makes you happier to be a human.... If you read this book, spend time with it, otherwise the points seem too intellectual, when really it is about the experience of the whole person. Good luck.
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- Selected Prose by R.S. Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on page 140, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on page 140, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mysticism and Logic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell on page 63, and Back Matter
- Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Ethics and Theological Disclosures: The Thought of Robert Sokolowski by Guy Mansini on page 129, and Back Matter
- At the Origin of the Christian Claim by Luigi Giussani in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sharpening Conflict Management: Religious Leadership and the Double-edged Sword by Joseph G. Bock on page 116, and Back Matter
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