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The questing spirit : religion in the literature of our time
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- selected and edited by Halford E. Luccock and Frances Brentano
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- English
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- New York : Coward-McCann, [1947]
- ©1947
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- 717 pages ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00665868
- Includes index.
- Short stories. Amos comes to Bethel / Dorothy Clarke Wilson -- A shepherd / Heywood Brown -- Simon who was called Peter / Kahlil Gibran -- Come, follow me / Manuel Komroff -- They cast lots for his robe / Lloyd C. Douglas -- On the road to Damascus / Donn Byrne -- St. Peter's difficulty / Frank Harris -- from The lost word / Henry Van Dyke -- A Christmas mystery / William J. Locke -- The stranger / Sholem Asch -- The saint and the goblin / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Music on the Muskatatuck / Jessamyn West -- The pragmatist / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- The Lord's day in the nineties / Mary Ellen Chase -- The man with the good face / Frank Luther Mott -- Mr. Andrews / E.M. Forster -- The debt / Kathleen Carman -- The shadow of a green olive tree / Warren Beck -- The materialist / Martin Armstrong -- The truth / Grace Stone Coates -- John the six / Josephine W. Johnson -- Child of God / Roark Bradford -- The lesson / Pearl Buck -- Father Sebastian / Robert Fontaine -- Answer to prayer / H.G. Wells -- The little candle / Ben Hecht -- The tenth Jew / Maeanna Cheserton-Mangle -- D-Day in church / Helen Howe -- Leaning on the everlasting arms / William Saroyan
- Poetry. The search for God. The seekers / John Masefield -- The falconer of God / William Rose Benet -- Prayer of an unbeliever / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- The mystic / Cale Young Rice -- Credo / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The children of the night / Santos : New Mexico / May Sarton -- If any God / Mark Van Doren -- The creditor / Louis MacNeice -- Full-circle / Maxwell Anderson -- A prayer / Laurence Binyon -- A hymn to God in time of stress / Max Eastman -- from Interlude, for a solitary flute / Samuel Hoffenstein -- The God-maker, man / Don Marquis -- Supplication / Josephine Johnson -- God / Gamaliel Bradford -- In the silence / Josephine Preston Peabody -- Sonnet XIII : selected poems / Robert Nathan -- And with no language but a cry / Amos N. Wilder -- Lift up the curtain / Hermann Hagedorn -- "Our Father who art" / Virginia French -- The eagle / Arthur Guiterman -- Envoy / Martin Armstrong
- Poetry. God in nature. Vestigia / Bliss Carman -- The scribe / Walter de la Mare -- A prayer in spring / Robert Frost -- The excesses of God / Robinson Jeffers -- Immanence / Evelyn Underhill -- A presence / Kenneth Slade Alling -- The apple tree / Oliver St. John Gogarty -- Sonnet XLIX : tumultuous shore / Arthur Davison Ficke -- Wind in the pine / Lew Sarett -- I find my God / V. Sackville-West -- Country church / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- Earth-bound / Theodore Maynard -- The world's miser / Theodore Maynard
- Poetry. Faith. The song of the pilgrims / Rupert Brooke -- The power and the glory / Siegfried Sassoon -- The old sceptic / Alfred Noyes -- House of Calvin / Leonora Speyer -- Pandora's song / William Vaughn Moody -- Sonnet VI : a winter tide / Robert Nathan -- Prayer at sunrise / James Weldon Johnson -- God suffers / Georgia Harkness -- Chorus VI : from The rock / T.S. Eliot -- Chorus X : from The rock / A Psalm / Edmund Blunden -- Evolution / John Banister Tabb -- Chorale : from For the time being / W.H. Auden -- My father's house / James Oppenheim -- Our lady / Robert Bridges -- Our Christ / Harry Webb Farrington -- God hears prayer / Ethel Romig Fuller -- High flight / John Gillespie Magee, Jr. -- Nam semen est verbum Dei / Louise Imogen Guiney -- A special place / Dorothy Quick -- Credo / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Hymn to God / Arthur Symons -- The land / W.J. Turner -- The enduring word / Audrey Wurdesmann -- The mystery / Ralph Hodgson -- In extremis / Vera Larminie -- Israel / William Ellery Leonard -- Ballade to our lady of Czestochewa / Hilaire Belloc -- Foreign missions in battle array / Vachel Lindsay
- Poetry. Doubt and denial. Mockery / Louis Untermeyer -- Portrait of an old cathedral / Father / Arthur Davison Ficke -- God's funeral / Thomas Hardy -- Spirit's house / Sara Teasdale -- Mastery / The church today / William Watson -- from the Magnetic mountain : 11 and 21 / C. Day Lewis -- New England gothic / Rachel Field -- Julian the apostate / Ernest Denny -- Ode II / Gerald Gould -- Hymn for grief / Margaret Widdemer -- Text / Sara Henderson Hay -- The laws of God, the laws of man / A.E. Housman -- The road / Humbert Wolfe -- The atheist's wail / Dorothy Ducas -- Now bar the door / Eva Byson
- Poetry. The Old Testament. The creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Before Ararat / J. Redwood Anderson -- Babel and Bethel / Frank Buchanan -- Abraham / Edmund Vance Cooke -- When Abraham went out of Ur / Nancy Byrd Turner -- The young Moses / Don Marquis -- The servant of the prophet / Abbie Huston Evans -- The prophet / Sherard Vines -- Ezekiel / Thomas S. Jones, Jr. -- Job reviles / A.M. Klein -- Moses and Jesus / Israel Zangwill -- The Diaspora / W.H. Auden
- Poetry. Christmas. The house of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- Prayer for a new mother / Dorothy Parker -- The maid-servant at the inn / Gates and doors / Joyce Kilmer -- A carol for Christmas day before dawn / Gordon Bottomley -- Christmas encyclical / Joseph Auslander -- Hora Christi / Alice Brown -- The miracle dreams / Susie M. Best -- The Christ child at Christmas / John Drinkwater -- The carol of the poor children / Richard Middleton -- The pilgrimage / Louis Untermeyer -- An old song re-sung / Katharine Tynan Hinkson
- Poetry. Jesus. I heard Immanuel singing / Vachel Lindsay -- Jesus / Anonymous -- The going of his feet / Harry Kemp -- By an ancient sea / Thomas Curtis Clark -- The nail-torn God / Edwin Markham -- His peace / William Alexander Percy -- Simon surnamed Peter / Edgar Lee Masters -- The poltroon / Sarah N. Cleghorn -- Spoil / William E. Brooks -- He was a gambler too-- / G.A. Studdert-Kennedy -- Christ in Woolworth's / Teresa Hooley -- Meditation on Jesus Christ / Johanna Rachel Branigan -- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton -- The carpenter / Phyllis Hartnoll -- The great refusal / Thomas S. Jones, Jr. -- To an enemy / E.J. Pratt
- Poetry. The Cross. Calvary / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- from The stations of the cross ; He is condemned ; He meets his mother / William A. Donaghy, S.J. -- In the servants' quarters / Thomas Hardy -- Simon the Cyrenian speaks / Countee Cullen -- Cold iron / Rudyard Kipling -- Jesus of Nazareth / Ernest Cadman Colwell -- Indifference / G.A Studdert-Kennedy -- Him I follow / Clemence Dane
- Poetry. Personal religion. A prayer / John Drinkwater -- Thanksgiving / Susie M. Best -- The monk in the kitchen / Anna Hempstead Branch -- "--Will he give him a stone?" / Abbie Huston Evans -- The prayer / John Galsworthy -- In New York : on Sunday morning / William Alexander Percy -- Doors of the temple / Aldous Huxley -- The burning-glass / Walter de la Mare -- On a subway express / Chester Firkins -- This is the trouble with us all / Josephine W. Johnson -- From year's end / Chorus I : from The Rock / T.S. Eliot -- Covenant / Joseph Auslander -- New England steeple / Frances Frost -- Envoy / Gerald Gould -- Prayer for this our time / Thomas Moult -- Edwin Markham -- Knowledge / Jan Struther -- Psalm IX / A.M. Klein -- Hymn in contemplation of sudden death / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Expectans expectavi / Charles Hamilton Sorley -- The passionate sword / Jean Starr Untermeyer -- Choice / Anna Wickham -- The most-sacred mountain / Eunice Tietjens -- A prayer for singleness of vision / Sherard Vines -- Heaven and Hell / William Watson -- Heresy indeed / Sara Henderson Hay -- from The everlasting mercy / John Masefield
- Poetry. Humor and satire. The new vainglory / Alice Meynell -- Patronage / Thomas Thornely -- Exit God / Gamaliel Bradford -- Noel / Leonard Feeney, S.J. -- Good Friday song / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- Ducks : III / Fredrick W. Harvey -- Club woman / Phyllis McGinley -- This side of Calvin / Margery Daw / Ruth Manning-Sanders -- The shape God wears / Sara Henderson Hay -- Eternity and the truth / Christopher Morley -- No coaching / The litany of the comfortable / Viola Chittenden White -- For the modernist sermon / Kenneth Burke
- Poetry. Social religion. Sonnet XXI : sonnets and verse / Hilaire Belloc -- Pronouns / Karle Wilson Baker -- There is a river / Jane Addams -- A hymn : o God of earth and altar / G.K. Chesterton -- The pawns / Frank Betts -- And what shall you say? / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- That God made / Will Herford -- A song of women / Anna Wickham -- The Jericho Road / Edwin McNeill Poteat -- Ecco il santo / Katherine Lee Bates -- Black Magdalens / Countee Cullen -- The litany of the dark people / Contemporary / Sara Bard Field -- The bells of heaven / Ralph Hodgson -- In time of mistrust, XIII / Robert Hillyer -- In thine image / Fania Kruger -- Sonnet XI : selected poems / Robert Nathan -- I must to prayer / Frank Buchanan -- A supplication / Clinton Scollard -- Rush hour / Joachim Smet, O. Carm. -- The mystic / Gertrude Bone
- Poetry. War and peace. The dawn of peace / Alfred Noyes -- The Jewish conscript / Florence Kiper Frank -- Christ in Flanders / L.W. (Lucy Whitmell) -- Battery moving up to a new position from rest camp : dawn / Robert Nichols -- Psalm CLI / Alter Brody -- The song of the child / Anna Wickham -- The peaceful shepherd / Robert Frost -- God and the strong ones / Margaret Widdemer -- The unpardonable sin / Vachel Lindsay -- Valley of the shadow / John Galsworthy -- Wonder / The perjured / Albert E. Johnson -- God's dreams / Thomas Curtis Clark -- Carol with variations / Phyllis McGinley -- The passion of man :1918-1938 / John Squire -- from Ode written during the Battle of Dunkirk, May 1940 / Herbert Read -- In the time of the persecution / L. Aaronson -- A soldier : his prayer / Gerald Kersh -- Invocation / G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- The army of the dead / William Rose Benet -- Passover Eve / Fania Kruger -- The atom / Thomas Thornely -- Presage / Thomas Thornely
- Poetry. Eternal life. An Easter poem / Herbert Edward Palmer -- All Souls' Day / Siegfried Sassoon -- Credo / The paradox / Ruth Pitter -- The fool hath said in his heart / Humbert Wolfe -- Missing / John Banister Tabb -- This quiet dust / John Hall Wheelock -- Vistas / Odell Shepard -- Sonnet : our dead / Robert Nichols -- Death and transfiguration / Marya Zaturenska -- To a child in death / Charlotte Mew -- An Easter canticle / Charles Hanson Towne -- A tramp's prayer / Harry Kemp -- But this is also everlasting life / Sarah N. Cleghorn -- The arrival / William Rose Benet
- Drama. Journey to Jerusalem : act III / Maxwell Anderson -- The angel that troubled the waters / Thornton Wilder -- The trial of Jesus : act III / John Masefield -- The terrible meek / Charles Rann Kennedy -- The zeal of thy house : act II / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Brother sun / Laurence Housman -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois : act II, scene 7 / Robert E. Sherwood -- Escape : part II, episode IX / John Galsworthy -- Green pastures : part II, scenes 6, 7, 8 / Marc Connelly -- Father Malachy's miracle / Brian Doherty ; special condensation by Margaret Mayorga -- Susan and God / Rachel Crothers ; special condensation by Margaret Mayorga -- The far-distant shore / Robert Finch and Betty Smith -- Joan of Lorraine / Isaiah and the United Nations / Stanley H. Silverman
- Affirmations. The search for God. Mysterious and miraculous / John Galsworthy -- Having lost God : advertisement -- The greatest need / Gamaliel Bradford -- The riddle / An enrichment of life / J. Arthur Hadfield -- The hidden fire / Paul Elmer More -- The holy scrolls / Sholem Asch -- from One destiny / Faith and the theatre / Maxwell Anderson -- A holy city / Maxwell Anderson
- Affirmations. Faith. I would rather believe / J.B. Priestley -- What keeps religion going / William James -- Faith is a anvil / John Buchan -- A declaration of belief / W. Russell Bowie -- Walk humbly / Paul Elmer More -- A sure refuge / William R. Inge -- The supreme wonder of life / W.S. Rainsford -- The cathedral speaks / Louis Howland -- The life which is God / A. Clutton-Brock -- The foundation of his throne / R. Travers Herford -- The revival of faith must go on / J. Donald Adams -- The human touch / Alexander Irvine -- The true faith / Esme Wingfield-Stratford -- from Humour and faith / Reinhold Niebuhr -- from This believing world / Lewis Browne
- Affirmations. Whither mankind. from A free man's worship / Betrand Russell -- from On the meaning of life / Will Durant -- What are we? / Thomas Wolfe -- The cult of the impersonal / John Macmurray -- If religion is on the side of reaction / Disillusioned with rebellion / Walter Lippmann -- Nature : the symbol of God's glory / Frederick J.E. Woodbridge -- from God finite and God infinite / William Pepperell Montague
- Affirmations. Jesus. The challenge of Jesus / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Christ : the link / John Galsworthy -- Trust in God / Reinhold Niebuhr -- The survival of Christ / Louis Paul -- A way of life / William Osler -- A true religion / Ralph Barton Perry -- We do know / Ernest Fremont Tittle -- Doctrines that disturb / Francis Yeats-Brown -- Christ and Confucius contrasted / Lin Yutang -- Jesus / H.G. Wells
- Affirmations. Prayer and worship. from Permit me voyage / James Agee -- A visible church in an invisible town / William Lyon Phelps -- The prayer of the scientist / Sinclair Lewis -- No answer / Oscar Wilde -- Places of worship / J.B. Priestley -- The Sabbath eve / Ludwig Lewisohn -- More than a lighted candle / George A. Buttrick -- God the life of nature / Mordecai Kaplan -- The religious point of view / Betsey Barton -- Prayer is power / Alexis Carrel -- from Worship / Richard C. Cabot -- A prayer / Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Affirmations. Personal religion. Finding God / Christopher Morley -- Two heroes / Robert F. Scott -- That's holy / John Steinbeck -- Religion is solitariness / Alfred North Whitehead -- A bread and butter letter to God / Katherine Butler Hathaway -- The mystic life / James Bissett Pratt -- The play is of his making / Mary Webb -- Wings / Jose Garcia Villa -- A larger life / Evelyn Underhill -- Killing an idea / Ray Stannard Baker -- I am not alone / Richard E. Byrd -- Wells of strength / Like a wind through chaos / William Pepperell Montague -- My sort of God / Heywood Broun
- Affirmations. Social religion. A screwtape letter / C.S. Lewis -- Vitalize the moral sense / William Ernest Hocking -- The common faith / John Dewey -- from The challenge of life / L.P. Jacks -- The dollar sign / Sinclair Lewis -- Prejudice / Ben Hecht -- The little gate to God / Walter Rauschenbusch -- A paraphrase of I Corinthians, XIII / The dullest thing / Hendrik Willem Van Loon -- Lack of fellowship is hell / John Haynes Holmes -- If this be madness / W. MacNeile Dixon -- We affirm / Israel Goldstein -- Hatred / James Heller -- Living water / John Cournos -- Man's deepest need / Thomas R. Kelly -- from On a note of triumph / Norman Corwin
- Affirmations. Science and religion. from The mysterious universe / Sir James Jeans -- Body and soul / J. Arthur Hadfield -- Ideals as goals / Edwin Grant Conklin -- The unifying philosophy of life / Gordon W. Allport -- A divine element in man / A.S. Eddington -- The astronomical sense of high religion / Lewis Mumford -- Where religion begins / George Herbert Palmer -- The creative power of the soul / Michael Pupin -- A heavenly language / The God of law and order / Robert A. Millikan -- True religiousness / Albert Einstein -- We and God have business with each other / William James
- Affirmations. War and peace. Yet will I trust him / James B. Conant -- They have blown the trumpet / Florence Converse -- For glory and victory / James Harvey Robinson -- The church in America / the editors of Fortune -- The church's duty / Bruce Marshall -- Decreasing moral sense / General J.F.C. Fuller -- from The bomb that fell on America / Hermann Hagedorn
- Affirmations. Eternal life. Time and eternity / Aldous Huxley -- There shone the stars / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes -- from The undiscovered country / Lily Dougall -- Autobiography and God / Gamaliel Bradford -- Life beyond time / Ralph W. Sockman -- The binding element / Alfred North Whitehead -- Two worlds / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Death, or life eternal? / Arthur H. Compton -- Toward which / Thomas Wolfe