Cordell Strug

On Religious Life: William James and I (eBook, ePUB)

An Affectionate Rumination

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William James was a great-hearted and generous philosophical spirit. He was also--beneath his human sympathy, his experiments, his scholarship, and his captivating writings--a religious seeker, a pilgrim looking for a new Jerusalem he was ready to define for himself. Cordell Strug, as a young philosophy student, was enthralled by James, especially by his lectures on religion, The Varieties of Religious Experience. He was drawn by the alternative James offered to religious traditions, by his passionate searching, and by his rich humanity. Yet he found he had to part company with James on the very nature of religious experience and the source of its power. Out of the struggle with James's religious vision, he found a way back to a more traditional religious life, eventually becoming a Lutheran pastor. In this book, he looks back at how he came under James's spell, how he embraced and wrestled with James's vision, and how James remained with him as a living presence, both a guiding and a critical companion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498290326
• Artikelnr.: 55270940

Autorenporträt

Cordell Strug studied philosophy at Purdue University but spent most of his life as a Lutheran pastor (LCA and ELCA). He has written on philosophy, religion, literature, and film; he is the author of Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist. f