How Long to Read Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective by Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As an historian of religion, Wilfred Cantwell Smith has investigated the way religious traditions define themselves, the nature of faith over the centuries, and the scriptures that have offered anticipations of eternity. In this book he turns to modern culture and finds that its past has been defined, not only by traditions that are normally called religious, but also by the disciplined quest for Truth. Philosophia, as this tradition may be called, draws its heritage from Greece, and has inspired scholarship throughout the ages. However, the ideal of objectivity, which has come to define the standard for this tradition, has had unfortunate results. The human encounter with transcendence, which overwhelms all existence, has been considered as no more than a peculiarity of the human alone, to be categorized and separated from other aspects of life. The result is a dehumanized view of truth, which all too often evokes fundamentalist reactions. Smith concludes with a call to rediscover the dimension of transcendence. Objectivity means more than reducing the human to the calculable. To treat people as they are in themselves is to understand them as subjects, to treat all aspects of their existence as worthy of respect and study, and to grasp what it means to be captured by a reality that overwhelms the confines of our limited world.

How long is Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective?

Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective by Wilfred Cantwell Smith is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective aloud.

What Reading Level is Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective?

Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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