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1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Great Discovery -- Grant's Roots and Formative Years -- War and 'Conversion' -- Post-war Writings -- Grant's Study of Theology and Philosophy -- Theology of the Cross: Its Origins, Meaning, and Significance -- Origins and Meaning of the 'Theology of the Cross' -- Significance of the Theology of the Cross for Grant -- Philosophy in the Mass Age -- Mass Society: What It is and How It Came to Be -- Consequences of the Mass Society on Human Life: Simone Weil and Existentialism -- Simone Weil's Analysis of Force and Affliction -- Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism: The Tragic Vision of Life -- Western Liberalism and the Mass Society: The Theology of Glory in North America -- Education, Religion, and Mental Health in the Mass Society -- Modern Liberalism-Hegel, Liberal Humanism, Marxism -- Struggle toward a Theology of the Cross for the Mass Age: Weil versus Hegel -- Purpose of Philosophy in the Mass Society -- Weil's Vision of the Good -- Grant's Earliest Encounters with Weil and the Insights Arising Therefrom -- Loving the World Concretely -- Growing Influence of Weil and the Allure of Hegel -- Intimations of Deprivation -- A Deepening of Perspective -- Darkness of the Technological Society: Its Nature and Essence -- Jacques Ellul: The Technological Society 'As It Is' -- Leo Strauss: The Irreconcilability of Ancient and Modern Visions of Society -- Philip Sherrard: The Corruption within Western Civilization As a Whole. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988.
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Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988. |
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Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988. |
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Grant, George, 1918-1988. |
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Grant, George, 1918-1988 -- Et la théologie. |
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Philosophical theology.
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Philosophical theology. |
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Electronic books.
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Theology.
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Theology. |
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Print version: Athanasiadis, Harris. George Grant and the theology of the cross. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2001 9780802048752 (DLC) 2001273607 (OCoLC)45045192 |
ISBN |
9781442675278 (electronic book) |
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1442675276 (electronic book) |
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0802048757 (bound) |
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9780802048752 |
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