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(^) 7 Tony Davies, 8 Régis Debray, and Corliss Lamont, Ungar, 1967).Renaissance to the PresentHumanismTransmitting CultureThe Philosophy of Humanism, trans. A. Hurley (San Diego, CA: Latitude Press, 1997); (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 31. Emphasis ours., trans. Eric Rauth (New York: Columbia , 5th edn. (New York: Frederick
9 Mircea Eliade, 10 Daily we read articles and see books on the upsurge of religion. For a popular University Press, 2000), p. 63.of Chicago Press, 1969), pp. 8–9.example, see Andrew Higgins, “In Europe, God is (Not) Dead” in The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (Chicago: University The Wall Street
12 Davies, 13 Paul Ricoeur, “What Does Humanism Mean?” in 11 Jonathan Sacks, Journal(London: Continuum, 2003), p. 55. CCI, no. 11, A1, A8.HumanismThe Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, p. 125. Political and Social Essays, ed. David^
14 Laszlo Versényi, 15 See Hannah Arendt, Stewart and Joseph Bien (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1975), pp. 86–7.1963), p. 131.Press, 1998). For a theological rejoinder, see Reinhold Niebuhr, Socratic HumanismThe Human Condition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (Chicago: University of Chicago The Nature and
16 Ernst Cassirer, 17 Other authors may use these terms differently, but we trust that our meanings Destiny of Man1944), p. 68.are clear. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996).An Essay on Man (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
18 Thomas Merton, “Virginity and Humanism in the Western Fathers,” in and Zen Mastersment of this outlook in Protestant theology, see Karl Barth, GodKnox Press, 1960), and in Russian theology see Paul Valliere, , trans. John Newton Thomas and Thomas Wieser (Richmond, VA: John (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967), p. 114. For a state-The Humanity of Modern Russian Mystics
19 Interestingly, there are even post-theistic forms of humanism in organized reli-Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov: Orthodox Theoogy in a New KeyRapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2000); and for a helpful general discussion of this point see R. William Franklin and Joseph Shaw, Humanism (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1991).The Case of Christian (Grand
gion. One thinks, for instance, of the Society for Humanistic Judaism. Sherwin Wine, its founder, formed a congregation which eliminated references to God in worship services and proclaimed “We revere the best in man.” In certain Unitarian Universalist congregations there is also a denial of “God” and yet an assertion of humanism within the religion. Other examples could be cited.
20 Examples are as far-ranging as the philosophical deduction of “natural religion” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Library, 1989), p. 259, and the set of universal “spiritual” qualities (especially Émile, trans. Barbara Foxley (London: Everyman’s
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