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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Dustcover has wear. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> One of the main convictions underlying the lectures which follow may be expressed like this: people of different periods and cultures differ very widely; in some cases so widely that accounts of the nature and relations of God men and the world put forward in one culture may be unacceptable as they stand in a different culture even though they may have expressed profound truth in their time and expressed it in a form entirely appropriate to the original situation. Since it will be a central contention of the lectures that a situation of this sort has arisen in connexion with some of the teaching of the Bible the truth or falsity of the initial conviction is obviously a matter of crucial importance. Reasons for it are naturally given in the course of the lectures themselves but discussion with the audience after the delivery of the final lecture suggested what subsequent discussion with others has confirmed that the point is one which needs further exposition and defence if the argument of the book is to be fully intelligible or convincing. An objection which has been raised more than once in one form or another runs something like this: It is perfectly true that men of different cultures often differ widely. They may differ for example in their estimate of the size and age of the universe; they may differ in their expectations of the future or their picture of various events in the past. They may differ in their scientific or psychological outlook or in their beliefs about the existence and activities of demons or witches. Examples could no doubt be multiplied ad infinitum but in the end they would all be found to refer to things relatively superficial. When all is said and done whatever the differences between their cultures human (SP)