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190 struggling with the world society, or an idea in the mind— that weakens or discredits our engage- ment in the present limits ...

struggling with the world 191 Th e fi rst response, a belated paganism, is to repudiate the dialectic of presence and transcende ...

192 struggling with the world Th is crypto- metaphysical project is the limiting rather than the normal form of belated paganism ...

struggling with the world 193 dence and engagement. It is rather the projection of our greatest good into the future and the ina ...

194 struggling with the world them by a cult of sheer force, from the preservation and strengthening of the body to the steeling ...

struggling with the world 195 that we now need in the spiritual life of humanity. Th e Promethean’s endeavor, however, is corrup ...

5 Religious Revolution Now Its Occasions and Instruments Reasons for religious revolution Th e previous chapters of this book ha ...

religious revolution now 197 facts of our mortality, groundlessness, and insatiability. Th e weight of such a commitment is only ...

198 religious revolution now Recall what it is that these three orientations, as well as the higher religions representing them, ...

religious revolution now 199 Among them, two are preeminent. One reason is that through its revolutionary action, in both its sa ...

200 religious revolution now position. Each of the Semitic mono the isms denied sanctity to nature and affi rmed the oneness of ...

religious revolution now 201 self- idolization. Yet it turns out that we cannot advance in the pursuit of this purpose without o ...

202 religious revolution now feature of human life while regarding our mortality, our groundless- ness, and our insatiability as ...

religious revolution now 203 of what we can become draws closer to the truth about ourselves than do the beliefs characteristic ...

204 religious revolution now corrupted by its pretense to succeed religion. It is tempted by the illu- sion that if only we thin ...

religious revolution now 205 Th e hesitation between escaping the world and changing it that marks the higher religions has two ...

206 religious revolution now Th e world as nature, however, is indiff erent to our concerns. Its ulti- mate enigmas are impenetr ...

religious revolution now 207 and structures. Th e sanctity of the personal never became, in this tradi- tion, the boundless dept ...

208 religious revolution now struggle with the world continues to be understood and practiced within the setting of ideas and in ...

religious revolution now 209 among these beliefs is the understanding, in this approach to exis- tence, of the relation between ...