A preface to morals

II. God in the Modern World 21 1. Imago Dei 21 2. An Indefinite God 23 3. God in More Senses Than One 25 4. The Protest of the Fundamentalists 30 5. In Man’s Image 35

VII. The Drama of Destiny 112 1. The Soul in the Modern World 112 2. The Great Scenario 115 3. Earmarks of Truth 118 4. On Reconciling Religion and Science 121 5. Gospels of Sci...

IX. The Insight of Humanism 152 1. The Two Approaches to Life 152 2. Freedom and Restraint 153 3. The Ascetic Principle 158 4. Oscillation between Two Principles 164 5. The Gold...

XII. The Business of the Great Society 232 1. The Invention of Invention 232 2. The Creative Principle in Modernity 235 3. Naive Capitalism 241 4. The Credo of Old-Style Busines...

Among those who no longer believe in the religion of their fathers, some are proudly defiant, and many are indifferent. But there are also a few, perhaps an increasing number, w...

By the dissolution of their ancestral ways men have been deprived of their sense of certainty as to why they were born, why they must work, whom they must love, what they must h...

From the earliest days the words of the Bible have been embroidered with luxuriant and often fantastic meanings. In Leviticus it says, for example, that the meal offering may be...

What I have said thus far can be reduced to the statement that it is difficult for modern men to conceive a God whom they can worship. Yet it would be a crude misunderstanding o...

The dissolution of the ancestral order is still under way, and much of our current controversy is between those who hope to stay the dissolution and those who would like to hast...

In any scheme of things where the churches, as agents of God, assert the right to speak with authority about the conduct of life they should be able to lay down rules about the...

The effect of modernity, then, is to specialize and thus to intensify our separated activities. Once all things were phases of a single destiny: the church, the state, the famil...

The upshot of the discussion to this point is that modernity destroys the disposition to believe that behind the visible world of physical objects and human institutions there i...

It will be granted, I suppose, that there would be no need for certainty about the plan and government of the universe if, as a matter of course, all our desires were regularly...

The land of heart’s desire is a place in which no man desires what he cannot have and each man can have what he desires. There have been great differences of opinion among men a...

In popular thought it is taken for granted that to be religious is to accept in some form or other the theocratic view that God governs the universe. If that assumption is corre...

The greatest of all perplexities in theology has been to reconcile the infinite goodness of God with his omnipotence. Nothing puts a greater strain upon the faith of the common...

One of the characteristics of the age we live in is that we are forever trying to explain it. We feel that if we understood it better we should know better how to live in it, an...

The difficulty of discovering an industrial philosophy which fits machine industry on a large scale has proved less trying than the discovery of a political philosophy which fit...

While the changes which modernity implies affect the premises of all human conduct, the problem as a whole engages the attention of relatively few persons. The larger number of...

Of all the bewilderments of the present age none is greater than that of the conscientious and candid moralist himself. The very name of moralist seems to have become a term of...