The authors of these essays, members of the philosophy department at the Pennsylvania State University, concern themselves with a wide variety of topics but are united by a common regard for the traditional ideas of Western philosophy.

This is an eminently sensible and sound study. To write dispassionately and yet with insight and conviction upon religious topics is at best a difficult task but one which in the present instance is admirably successful. Setting as his major theme that “we cannot construct a religion for ourselves out of merely philosophical elements, and that the attempt to provide some philosophical or similar substitute for religion … is misconceived,” Professor Lewis is concerned with the explication of our religious beliefs (...) in the many forms which they take in the patterns of our religious experience. (shrink)