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Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.
From the Publisher
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 88-5563
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry. 2d Ed. FROM THE PUBLISHER
Saving The Appearances is about the world as we see it and the world as it is; it is about God, human nature, and consciousness. This book draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.
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Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.
FROM THE CRITICS
"We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free ... from the prison we have made for ourselves by our ways of knowing, our limited and false habits of thought, our 'common sense'"
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