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Hailed as "one of the greatest philosophical minds of all time" by English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, William James is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Western philosophy and as the founder of the psychology of religion. An immediate... read more

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sought for in the haunts of special erudition - they lie along the beaten highway; and this circumstance, which flows so naturally from the character of our problem, suits admirably also your lecturer' lack of special theological learning. I may take my citations, my sentences and paragraphs of personal confession, from books that most of you at some time will have had already in your hands, and yet this will be no determent to the value of my conclusions.

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  1. William James (Author)
  2. Martin E. Marty
 

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