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In 'Modern Substitutes for Christianity,' Pearson M'Adam Muir embarks on a critical exploration of contemporary belief systems that have emerged in the wake of traditional Christianity's decline. Through a blend of incisive argumentation and reflective prose, Muir situates these modern ideologies within a broader historical and philosophical context, tackling the psychological, social, and ethical implications of such substitutes. His literary style, characterized by clarity and depth, engages the reader in a thoughtful inquiry into the nature of faith and moral values in the modern age, as well as the spiritual void left by the erosion of religious certainties. Pearson M'Adam Muir, a promin...
Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
"The G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns includes fourteen color and fifty-eight black-and-white illustrations as well as an introduction by G. Ross Roy on the history of the collection. In text and images, the catalogue documents a monumental research collection that serves as an open invitation for further investigations into the life, works, and legacy of Scotland's bard."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical "hymnic" verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now. The texts the book examines—Addison's St. Cecilia's Day odes (1692, 1699), his libretto for the opera Rosamond (1707), and a sequence of five hymnic works in The Spectator (1712)—precede by twenty-five years John Wesley's publication of the first hymnal for use in the Church of England. Th...
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