...Experience (Longmans) formed the subject of his course of Gifford lectures, in which he defines religion as "the feelings, acts and experiences of individual...themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may call divine." He claims that the advance in the liberal interpretation of Christianity which has marked...

...one religion; he deliberately puts both theology and ecclesiasticism on one side, and considers only "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." If we look, he says, on man's whole mental life as it stands, the part of it of which rationalism can...

...introduction, and of the definition of the field itself. Religion is defined, for the present purpose, as " the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men...relation to whatever they may consider the divine " (p. 31). This purely empiricist definition was necessitated by the manner of approach, and must not...

...not be worth while. Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in...

...as I now ask you arbitrarily to ta^e 1t, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and exjjeri-. cnces of individual men in their solitude, so far as they...relation to whatever they may consider "the divine, '^Sinco- the relation may , be e1ther moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out I of religion...

...for us the feelings, acts, and ex^eri- \J ences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they themselves to stand in 'relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in...

...and taken hold of one side in it exclusively, he easily reaches his definition of religion (p. 31), "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...relation to whatever they may consider the divine." And in regard to this last phrase, " the divine," he makes a further definition, " arbitrarily, if...

...religion as an experience, a life ; or, as it is described by Dr. James (p. 31), a collection of ' feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men...relation to whatever they may consider the divine.' And the whole subject, Psychology of Religion, ' has for its work to carry the well-established methods...

...second lecture, the topic to be studied is circumscribed. Religion is defined arbitrarily to mean " the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual...to stand in relation to whatever they may consider divine." What this "divine " is remains in each case for interpretation, as for example in atheistic...

...Experience (Longmans) formed the subject of his course of Gifford lectures, in which he defines religion as "the feelings, acts and experiences of individual...themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may call divine." He claims that the advance in the liberal interpretation of Christianity which has marked...