Memoirs of a Positivist

ISBN-13: 9781032572888 / Angielski

Malcolm Quin

Opis

First published in 1924, Memoirs of a Positivist is both an autobiography of the author and a history of the English Positivist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It especially elaborates on the influence of the Positivist movement in the religious life of people and the manners in which scientific reasons were sought for religious beliefs. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy, religion and history.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Days of belief 2. From Christianity to Positivism 3. Experiences of secularism 4. Northern secularism 5. The early history of Positivism 6. Preaching Positivism 7. My first church 8. Positivist developments 9. My second church 10. Some Positivist experiments 11. The later Positivism 12. Order and disorder 13. Positivising Catholicism 14. In the Catholic church 15. Labour and peace 16. After-thoughts Index

O autorze

Malcolm Quin