Considerations Respecting the Recognition of Friends in Another World (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Redman Coxe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330596706 ISBN 13 : 9781330596708

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore early debates on mind, matter, and the afterlife through a historic reference on phrenology and the soul. This edition surveys long-standing ideas about how brain faculties shape thought, memory, and speech, and it traces conversations about hell, hades, and the afterlife across biblical interpretation and ancient to modern thought.

In its pages you’ll encounter arguments that phrenology is not a new science, but an ancient one, with examples drawn from medical and philosophical sources. The text weighs linguistic and theological perspectives, linking anatomical study to beliefs about destiny, deity, and the nature of consciousness.

• Historical context for the study of phrenology and its critics.


• Connections between brain structure, voice, and likeness in this early framework.


• Debates over the meanings of terms like hell, sheol, and hades across languages and texts.


• Arguments about how science should inform belief about the soul and the divine.

Ideal for readers of 19th‑century scientific thought and biblical interpretation, this edition offers clear, accessible exposure to a pivotal historical dialogue about mind, life after death, and the science of human nature.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is scarcely necessary to write a Preface in order to explain the nature of the three Essays which constitute the following pages. They are in themselves so short, that a prefatory outline would nearly equal either of them in extent. I shall therefore merely remark, that the subjects are of sufficient interest to induce the attention of a few leisure moments; the reflections from which may possibly be found not to be altogether unprofitable to the reader. In this happy country, where all are permitted to think for themselves (that is, if they choose), without restriction from religious or sectarian prejudices, and to commit to the press their views on any subject that they may deem interesting to themselves or to others, no apology is necessary from the writer, though but a layman, for venturing on certain topics of inquiry, which to many, will appear altogether the property of the, clergy. Such, however, are not his sentiments. If of any importance, they are equally so to the laity as to the clergy: and if the former would more frequently enter on the consideration of congenial subjects, and in which all are alike concerned, it is probable that much of that theological enmity of ditferent sects of Christians now prevailing through the world, might be softened down and chastened, by dispersing the dogmas with which every sect abounds, and which, (the offspring of theological and ecclesiastical pride, from even the times of the apostles), have been the chief means of separating the Christian community, and splitting it into cliques and parties, unwarranted by Scripture. The laity, unfortunately, at all times, too ignorant, or too idle, to think seriously for themselves, have been satisfied to do that in spiritual, which they would not do in their temporal concerns, viz: to embrace every wild, vague, or enthusiastic notion, that their spiritual directors hav
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330596706
• ISBN 13: 9781330596708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 102
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