Atheneum paperbacks

"32." Includes bibliography.

Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

"Wiley sketches the course of the Confederacy's decline and reappraises the influences leading to its defeat." -- book jacket

From the back cover: "The twelve essays in this volume are a selection from the thirty-five which make up three volumes on Confucianism published over the last several years: CONFUCIANISM IN ACTION, THE CONFUCIAN PERSUASION, and CONFUCIAN PERSONALITIES. The selection was made on the basis of recommendations from all the authors who contributed to the three volumes. Each of the studies is by a leading scholar: Benjamin Schwartz, Hui-chen Wang Liu, Charles O. Hucker, Joseph R. Levenson, Hans H. Frankel, Gung-wu Wang, Hellmut Wilhelm, Arthur F. Wright, James F. Cahill, Robert Ruhlmann, David S. Nivinson, Frederick W. Mote. Professor Wright, in his new introduction, says in summary that these essays 'are meant to illustrate the effects of the Confucian world view and its associated patterns of behavior on the development of Chinese civilization. They also suggest the Confucian tradition's capacity for adaptation, as well as something of its inner variety . . . Confucianism provided the normative ideas that brought Chinese society back, again and again, to long periods of stability, and creative achievement. As the central tradition of the massive human achievement that we call Chinese civilization, it deserves our attention and respect.'"

The present collection of essays, selected by a priest-teacher and laywoman-student at Loyola University, brings together wide-ranging, mind-opening, and absorbing studies on major aspects of biblical scholarship. The volume comprises four major sections. In the first, "Free Scholarship in the Church," McKenzie emerges as an articulate spokesman for freedom of intellectual inquiry within the household of the faith. Part 2, "Inspiration and Revelation," are lucid, intellectually exhilarating investigations into the meaning of God's word and the historical processes from which the Bible emerged. Part 3, "Myth and the Old Testament," includes probing essays that bring the reader face to face with an important and difficult subject: the attitude of the biblical man to nature and to the mythologies of his pagan neighbors. The final section, "Messianism," is devoted to a study of the hopes of Israel of old and their fulfillment in Jesus Christ, along with the use of messianic passages for apologetic purposes.