Faith for living / [by] Lewis Mumford.
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace and Co.,
[1940]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The betrayal of man: No flight from the wrath to come
- The illusion of security
- Inner decay comes first
- The unearned increment of religion
- The threefold cult of power
- Manufacturing soldiers and robots
- The primitive and the personal
- pt. 2. Corruption of the opposite: New wars of religion
- The disintegration of liberalism
- Outer assault: inner betrayal
- Humanitarianism and power
- The immaturity of the mature
- pt. 3. The undermining of personality: The evilness of evil
- Failure to face ultimate issues
- Force, grace, and reason
- Coercion and compromise
- The dread of the emotions
- The curse of optimism
- The betrayal of liberalism
- pt. 4. Crumbled traditions: Sources of tradition
- Love among the ruins
- Reversal of human values
- The de-moralization of economics
- Capitalism connives a suicide
- Temptations of the churches
- Counsel in a time of troubles
- The national being
- The challenge of non-Euclidean politics
- pt. 5. The recovery of purpose: Prospects for survival
- Framework of faith
- Creating and sharing values
- Life is better than Utopia
- pt. 6. Personal development: social renewal: The needs of the living
- Re-birth of the family
- Culture of the family
- Roots in the region
- Growth of the person
- Discipline of work
- Social tempering of self
- Behold the man!
- pt. 7. Sacrifice and salvage: All hands save ship!
- The economics of sacrifice
- The politics of sacrifice
- Last Testament.