This book is mainly about the realm between the transience of things and the Truth of things , the middle state between What-is and the Holy.The first chapter deals with man's condition: suffering, evanescence and finitude; and the second considers possible ways of escaping this condition. A good deal of suffering could be eradicated by radically transforming society through concerted rational human action. The third chapter is concerned with two basic forms of religious action-sacrifice and worship. Sacrifice is givigng up of what one has leading to transformation of life, while worship is talking refuge in God with the prayerful thought that one is sinful, naught and helpless and that He is only means of salvation. The fouth chapter grapples with the questions of God's existence , non-appearance, silence, absence and death, and the dialetic of atheism and the relation between religion and ethic.
This book is mainly about the realm between the transience of things and the Truth of things , the middle state between What-is and the Holy.The first chapter deals with man's condition: suffering, evanescence and finitude; and the second considers possible ways of escaping this condition. A good deal of suffering could be eradicated by radically transforming society through concerted rational human action. The third chapter is concerned with two basic forms of religious action-sacrifice and worship. Sacrifice is givigng up of what one has leading to transformation of life, while worship is talking refuge in God with the prayerful thought that one is sinful, naught and helpless and that He is only means of salvation. The fouth chapter grapples with the questions of God's existence , non-appearance, silence, absence and death, and the dialetic of atheism and the relation between religion and ethic.