William Ralph Inge: 6 books

Addressing an audience of both Christians and Nonconformists, the author, a distinguished scholar and theologian, takes on the subjects of “Development of the Religious Consciousness,” “Falsehood in Religion,” “The Religion of Christ,” and more. Inge seems to be wavering between whether it...

THE PRECURSORS OF THE GERMAN MYSTICS TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however, this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had nearly spent itself. Thomas a Kempis, as Dr. Bigg has said,[1] was...

In this 1910 philosophical work, the author argues that religious faith is part of human nature, that faith takes over the entire human mind and body, and that all defects in religion result from the premature arresting of the development of faith. He criticizes appeal to the authority of Scripture and other ideas.

First delivered as a series of eight lectures at Oxford University, this 1899 volume in defense of the Christian faith, “to confute all heretics and schismatics,” is based on nature and reason rather than signs and wonders. Mysticism is defined here as the realization—both mental and physical—of...