The analogy of experience: An approach to understanding religious truth ([The Annie Kinkead Warfield lectures)

This book is part of the Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures named in honor of the wife of Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, professor of theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887 to 1921. The lectures continue today at the Princeton Theological Seminary. They are always on religious and philosophical topics. The author of this series of lectures, John E. Smith, was a Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and a specialist in American philosophy and the philosophy of religion. Dr. Smith predicted that future historians would describe the mid-twentieth century as an age of experience, not of faith. He felt that we had found surrogate gods for a technological era as well as a new religion of worshiping the thrill of the moment. Rejecting as too limited the conception of experience employed by classical British philosophers Locke and Hume, Smith drew on the broad and rich understanding of experience developed by the American pragmatic philosophers. Encompassing moral, religious, and aesthetic dimensions, this broader conception of experience, Smith argues, is the medium through which religious notions can be made clear and pertinent to the modern secular man.