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Experience and Religion (A Lay Essay in Theology)
Experience and Religion - A Lay Essay in Theology Author:Nicholas Mosley Only rarely does a book as unlikely and original as EXPERIENCE AND RELIGION appear. The author is a noted comtemporary novelist with philosophical training, and a man to whom the Christian religion has come with something of the impact of a conversion but without the obsessive enthisiasms such experiences can bring in their train. His thesis is ... more »that religious language has dried up; its subject matter has become dangerously abstract and its powers of interpreting men's actual beliefs and predicaments have vanished. Yet there are things to be said in religious language which can be both important and true; things about self-knowledge and free-will; about living together (in marriage) and bringing up children; about the way the world is to be observed, dealt with. In this exciting book a lot of practical things are said in a way so direct that the unwary reader may be puzzled; but to those who recognise themselves amongst the author's audience his words will sound liberating and true.« less