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Contents

 

BIBLICAL ORIGINS

The Bible
Genesis
Deuteronomy
Micah
Matthew
Gustavo Gutierrez, The Power of the Poor in History

GREEK ORIGINS

Plato, The Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

THE MEANING OF SUFFERING

Job
Elie Wiesel, Night
George N. Marshall, The Buddhist Path of Deliverance
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Julian of Norwich, Showings
Mary Daly, The Leap Beyond Patriarchal Religion
John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

THE CRITIQUE OF RELIGION

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals Attack upon 'Christendom'
Friedrich Nietzsche, Joyful Wisdom The Genealogy of Morals The Will to Power

RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
Robert N. Bellah, Civil Religion in America Biblical Religion and Social Science in the Modem World

THE MEANING OF LIFE

Walter T. Stace, Man Against Darkness
Leo Tolstoy, My Confession