Religion in the Making

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Publishing house Cambridge University Press
Country – city USA
Date of issue February 21st 2011
Number of pages 156

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Religion in the Making

This classic text in American Philosophy by one of the foremost figures in American philosophy offers a concise analysis of the various factors in human nature which go toward forming a religion, to exhibit the inevitable transformation of religion with the transformation of knowledge and to direct attention to the foundation of religion on our apprehension of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a stable order in the world, permanent elements apart from which there could be no changing world.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a prominent English mathematician and philosopher who co-authored the highly influential Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell.

Religion in the Making, which originated in a series of four lectures delivered in King’s Chapel, Boston, during February 1926, constitutes an exploration of the relationship between human nature and religion.

In many ways a rejection of dogma, the text explores the connection between religious transformation and the transformation of knowledge.

Through this approach, the reader is encouraged to develop a conception of faith that is at home with the changing nature of experience.

The permanent aspect of religion is regarded as the apprehension of permanent elements that are reconcilable with this form of change. This concise and fascinating study will be of value to anyone with an interest in philosophy and theology.

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophywhich today has found application to a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology, among other areas.

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