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“The two parts of the book might have been written by different authors in different ages. Absolutely nothing prepares the reader for the shock he receives when the author launches her thunderbolt. An ugly story with an undeniable dramatic dénouement.”
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“Having once read the book, no competent judge of good craftsmanship would dare refuse to acknowledge the unfaltering purpose, the patient insistent building up, the cumulative power of this grim book.” Calvin Winter
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“It might have been, within its limits, a little masterpiece. But in the groping for tragedy the author fails and the conclusion is merely shocking. The most captivating human figure is the nurse, Hannah.”
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WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN. Divine personality and human life. (Library of philosophy) *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 231
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“This volume contains the second part of the Gifford lectures, delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1918–1919.” (Nation) “In the first series of these lectures, ‘God and personality,’ it was argued that by a ‘personal God’ is meant a God with whom a personal relationship is possible for his worshippers; that such a relationship is associated with the higher forms of religious experience; that in Christianity certain difficulties which attach to the conception of the personality of God are avoided by the assertion that God is not a single person; and it was claimed, not indeed that this position was free from difficulties, but that it was attended by fewer and less serious difficulties than its rivals. In the present course personality in man is examined in the light of these conclusions; the various activities in which this human personality expresses itself—economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political, and religious—being viewed in relation to the supreme spiritual reality revealed to us in the experience given in religion. The three concluding lectures consider the rank to be assigned in the kingdom of reality to the finite individual person.” (Spec)