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Title: Naturalism And Religion

Author: Dr. Rudolf Otto

Release Date: March 27, 2009 [Ebook #31794]

Language: English

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Naturalism And Religion

By

Dr. Rudolf Otto

Professor of Theology in the University of Goettingen

Translated by

J. Arthur Thomson

Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen

and

Margaret R. Thomson

Edited with an Introduction by

The Rev. W. D. Morrison, LL.D.

Williams & Norgate Ltd.

38 Great Ormond Street, London, W.C.1

1907

CONTENTS

Preface.
Chapter I. The Religious Interpretation Of The World.
What is Distinctive in the Religious Outlook.
Chapter II. Naturalism.
What is Distinctive in the Naturalistic Outlook.
The True Naturalism.
Goethe's Attitude to Naturalism.
The two Kinds of Naturalism.
Aim and Method of Naturalism.
Chapter III. Fundamental Principles.
How the Religious and the Naturalistic Outlooks Conflict.
Mystery : Dependence : Purpose.
The Mystery of Existence Remains Unexplained.
Evolution and New Beginnings.
The Dependence of the Order of Nature.
The "Contingency" of the World.
The Real World.
The Antimony of Our Conception of Time.
The Antimony of the Conditioned and the Unconditioned.
The Antimony of Our Conception of Space.
The Recognition of Purpose.
Teleological and Scientific Interpretations are Alike Necessary.
Chapter IV. Darwinism In General.
The Development of Darwinism.
Darwinism and Teleology.
The Characteristic Features of Darwinism.
Various Forms of Darwinism.
The Theory of Descent.
Haeckel's Evolutionist Position.
Weismann's E