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...ng the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative log...

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...ortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipulations and Our Undoing Chapter 5 57 Some Influencers of the Church: Prophets and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 6 71 From Luther to Jung: Broadening the Insights Chapter 7 82 We...

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...e such a thing as common sense where the bulk of mankind is concerned? Is Christianity a bulwark to be counted on, or is it cleverly concocted prete...

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Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY JES...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ission, in any way. Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... is an equal opportunity university. Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ............................................................. ... .............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ........................................................ ..................................... 51 THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY ................................................................. .......................................................... 92 THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY ................................................................. .......................................................................... 92 CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE .................................................. ...rocles and the Lion PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By BERNARD SHAW 1912 PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY ...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSE...

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...ts Contents ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y Y Y Y, AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN ORG... ...ES. VOL. I. ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANIT ON CHRISTIANITY Y Y Y Y, AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN OR , AS AN ORG... ...of sun-dials, stealthier than the growth of a forest, are the footsteps of Christianity amongst the political workings of man. Nothing, that the heart... ...the heart of man values, is so secret; nothing is so potent. It is because Christianity works so secretly, that it works so 5 Thomas de Quincey poten... ...so secretly, that it works so 5 Thomas de Quincey potently; it is because Christianity burrows and hides itself, that it towers above the clouds; and... ...impulses, (impulses of benignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the socia... ...Lost. Book III. 6 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or fro... ...; so that no finite intellect will ever retrace the total curve upon which Christianity has moved, any more than eyes that are incar- nate will ever s... ...maze, has its source in a misconception of the original machinery by which Christianity moved, and of the initial principle which con- stituted its di...

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...ristendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in the year 1054. Its theologies and liturgies are written m...

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...itten in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great work that can be called Classical. - Consolation of Philosophy was written during Boethius' one year imprisonment while awaiting trial, and eventual horrific execution, for the crime o...

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...he further side of Acheron.?Virgil leads Dante into Limbo, the First Circle of Hell, containing the spirits of those who lived virtuously but without Christianity.?Greeting of Virgil by his fellow poets.?They enter a castle, where are the shades of ancient worthies.?Virgil and Dante depart. ..................................................... 24 CANTO V. The Second Circle...

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...rits of those who lived vir ed vir ed vir ed vir ed virtuously but without Christianity tuously but without Christianity tuously but without Christian... ... without Christianity tuously but without Christianity tuously but without Christianity tuously but without Christianity.—G .—G .—G .—G .—Gr r r r ree... ... of Hell, containing the spirits of those who lived virtuously but without Christianity.—Greeting of Virgil by his fellow poets.—They enter a castle, ... ... which is part of the faith that thou believest; and if they were be- fore Christianity, they did not duly worship God: and of such as these am I myse...

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...ecklessly superficial critics seem to believe that the modern objection to Christianity as a pernicious slave-morality was first put forward by Nietzs... ...nor and manhood. Now it is true that Cap- tain Wilson’s moral criticism of Christianity was not a his- torical theory of it, like Nietzsche’s; but thi... ...has devoted his life to the elaboration and propagation of his theory that Christianity 8 Preface to Major Barbara is part of an epoch (or rather an ... ...every abomination, accept every plun- der, and submit to every oppression. Christianity, in making a merit of such submission, has marked only that de... ...n doing this, the Salvation Army instinctively grasps the central truth of Christianity and discards its central supersti- tion: that central truth be... ...t this Crosstianity has got en- tangled with something which Barbara calls Christianity, and which unexpectedly causes her to refuse to play the hangm... ... them to premature death in the ser- vice of the rich is complete in this. CHRISTIANITY AND ANARCHISM SUCH IS THE FALSE POSITION from which neither th... ... Christian, he is allowed some latitude in that matter, because, I repeat, Christianity has two faces. Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gib- ... ...e bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of Equality, and forbids the ...

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...like a drop myself sometimes. What I can’t stand is your being addicted to Christianity. And what’s worse again, your being addicted to animals. How i... ...R (turning in some surprise at the salutation) There is no forgiveness for Christianity. LAVINIA. I did not mean that, Caesar. I mean that we forgive ... ... and the Lion nothing left now but your faith in this craze of yours: this Christianity. Are your Christian fairy stories any truer than our stories a... ...ible! an amaz- ing thing! has happened. I can no longer doubt the truth of Christianity. (The Christians press to him joy- fully.) This Christian sorc... ...visiting, and organization of almsgiving, which does not necessarily touch Christianity at any point except the point of the tongue. The exceptional o...

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...c knowledged by all men to be diametrically opposite to the profession of Christianity, and bend all its nerves either to the introducing of ceremoni... ...od man to do. Magistracy does not oblige him to put off either humanity or Christianity; but it is one thing to per suade, another to command; one th... ...ish by ecclesiastical laws, as absolutely necessary to the pro fession of Christianity, such things as the Holy Scrip tures do either not mention, o... ... Christians and declared by some or all of them to be utterly void of true Christianity—yet in deed and in truth this man cannot be either a heretic o...

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...circumstances without precedent, and (wherever human nature is ennobled by Christianity) it may be confidently hoped—never to be repeated. The first p... ...e lost or were removed to an incalculable distance for their conversion to Christianity, without which in these times there is no abso- lute advance p... ...er, as his modern successor; or else it refers simply to the Greek form of Christianity professed by the Russian Emperor and Church. *Thoughts on Some... ... that might be mentioned,) the rule evidently acted upon by the Founder of Christianity was this—Given the purifica- tion of the fountain, once assume... ...tate through the centuries succeeding to Christ, during which paganism and Christianity were slowly descending and ascending, as if from two different... ... its patience, its suffering life, and its association with the founder of Christianity in one great triumphal so- lemnity. The very man who brutally ... ...- glish racer, by continual care. *Mahometanism, which everywhere pillages Christianity, can- not but have its own face at times glorified by its stol... ...ause their bodies were exclusively mangled. How little can it be said that Christianity has yet developed the fulness of its power, when kings and sen... ...itions of Paganism; and we have shown that, in the modern superstitions of Christianity, or of Mahometanism, (often enough borrowed from Christian sou...

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...tnesses, whose veracity is unimpeachable. “A slave- holder’s profession of Christianity is a palpable imposture. He is a felon of the highest grade. H... ...he —slaveholding religion— of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Ch... ...ty to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-w... ... slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceit... ... the religion 94 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of... ..., and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other —d... ...and holy! is that church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?” The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as t...

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...sons to stand up for it. Yet to enforce it was the most arduous task which Christianity ever had to perform. For more thana thousand years the Church ... ...stic vows. After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and death over his wife. She could invoke n... ... practical feeling of the equality of human beings, which is the theory of Christianity, but which Christianity will never practically teach, while it... ...e under the law of force. The joint influence of Roman civilisation and of Christianity obliterated these distinctions, and in theory (if only partial... ...ul’s business, nor was it consis tent with his object, the propagation of Christianity, to incite anyone to rebellion against existing laws. The Apos... ...duce it to the level of Islamism or of Brahminism. It is precisely because Christianity has not done this, that it has been the religion of the progre... ...he declining portions. There have been abundance of people, in all ages of Christianity, who tried to make it something of the same kind; to convert T... ...lways be an uphill struggle; for the law of justice, which is also that of Christianity, will never get possession of men’s inmost sentiments; they wi... ...lly instrumental in inducing the northern conquerors to adopt the creed of Christianity, a creed so much more favourable to women than any that preced...

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...them with adults in the family is the utter defeat of the vital element in Christianity. Christ stands in the world for that intuition of the highest ... ...ed on himself. This exclamation of Sam Weller is at once the nega- tion of Christianity and the beginning and the end of cur- rent morality; and so it... ...to the character and con- ditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity 97 Shaw which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and ...

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.... The question was summed up for him thus: “If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the prob- 23 Tolstoy lems of my life, what answers d... ...dea of God, a Christian, my whole life filled with the spiritual blessings Christianity has given me, full of them, and living on those blessings, lik...