The tale of a young man who became enthralled with Roman Catholicism around 1950, went on to become a priest, served in three northern New Jersey parishes, and left the priesthood in 1967.
If this collection of essays provides even a small encouragement in this direction for the seeker, the believer, or the skeptic, that will be gratifying indeed." -- from the Introduction
Only as it got closer did he recognise it was his brothers. The cavalry was coming to the rescue. 'My cousin had told them about the car chasing me.' Marlion jumped into Thomas's car and the brothers went in search of those who had ...
For a more recent and better developed analysis of belief's characteristic phenomenology see Cohen (1992). According to Cohen, to believe that p is to be disposed to “feel” that p when the question of whether parises.
Each had adversities to overcome, sacrifices were made and goals accomplished. It doesn’t matter where you start in life. It only matters where you finish. You will learn from this book that if you believe it, someday you will see it.
Rochester, July 5, 1852; reprinted in Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglas, USA: Wilder Publications (2014). Douglass, F., and H. Jacobs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a ...
This book shows how ethical questions fit together, and how great historical debates and decision-making - whether about religious conflict, or theodicy, or questions of authority - shed light on some of the great moral challenges facing ...
This book explores the psychology of belief - how beliefs are formed, how they are influenced both by internal factors, such as perception, memory, reason, emotion, and prior beliefs, as well as external factors, such as experience, ...
Belief: Integrity in Relationships
At the center of this book is the enigma of belief. Freed by modernity from its Platonic subordination to knowledge, belief is recovered as a crucial and inevitable feature of our cultural and personal lives.
This book shows how ethical questions fit together, and how great historical debates and decision-making - whether about religious conflict, or theodicy, or questions of authority - shed light on some of the great moral challenges facing ...