Glory jest riddle study (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 166pp. From the jacket flap: Using the thesis that, on top of the biological and social 'self', there comes to be superimposed a moral 'self' with a peculiar capacity for experience of its own, this book makes a broad survey of the growth of individualism in the Greco-Roman world from Homer until the era of Jesus, and suggests an interpretation of the salvation promised by Jesus which is of universal interest.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First American edition. Some spotting on the boards else near fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. ix, 166 p.; 22 cm. The title is taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man. Contents: Preface -- 1 The heroic self -- 2 The birth of the anti-hero -- 3 The god within -- 4 Justice and judgment -- 5 The new man -- 6 Ways of salvation -- 7 Lightning from heaven -- Epilogue -- References. -- `But the advent of the Spirit cannot be commanded; no formula, magical or scientific, can bind it; it is as free as the wind's breath. `The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.' As the Holy Ghost does not command, so it does not answer commands; but it will answer requests.' (p. 156) -- `So, by the process which I have called psychopoeia, `soulmaking', Psyche has reached a stage where she has earned her name and is fully-fledged; where, by her emergence into full self-consciousness, or the consciousness of what theologians have called `the ground of being', she is confronted with the choice of imitating Christ or aping God. She now breathes an unfamiliar ether, superimposed upon, but not displacing, that social atmosphere in which she was nurtured; an ether in which her new freedom of individuality and choice will carry with it the gravest personal consequences, for she will have it in her, if she chooses, to be the deity, creator and inhabitant of her own universe.' (p. 161) VG orig. green cloth in illus. light green dj. …