Preface to Religion
eBook - ePub

Preface to Religion

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Preface to Religion

About this book

Amidst the backdrop of World War II, the great Fulton Sheen wrote Preface to Religion, his first book published after the war ended. As the world was recovering from death, destruction, and despair, Sheen's timely work tackles the most salient questions pertaining to happiness and sanity. With simplicity and frankness, Sheen declares, "If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. If there is no God, then you are a god." Throughout this work, Sheen addresses the perennial subjects of fallen nature, forgiveness, the four last things, how God remakes us, the role of religion in the process, and the gift of second chances.

Contrary to the modern world, God does not give us what "we want for our pleasure" but "what we need for our perfection." Preface to Religion reminds us of education's primary purpose, which is to train the mind to use freedom rightly. God chose to make a moral universe, but morality is impossible without freedom. And therefore, the reader will see that the body must always serve the soul.

Finally, Sheen writes on faith, that "the modern man who is not living according to his conscience wants a religion without a Cross, a Christ without a Calvary, a Kingdom without Justice, " and a pastor "who never mentions hell to ears polite." For anyone seeking to find true happiness and true freedom, Preface to Religion will be your guide.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Publisher’s Note
  7. Chapter 1: Are You Happy
  8. Chapter 2: What Is God Like
  9. Chapter 3: What Are You Like
  10. Chapter 4: How You Got That Way
  11. Chapter 5: Who Can Re-make You
  12. Chapter 6: Is Religion Purely Individual
  13. Chapter 7: How You Are Remade
  14. Chapter 8: Judgment
  15. Chapter 9: Purgatory
  16. Chapter 10: The Hell There Is
  17. Chapter 11: Heaven
  18. Chapter 12: Faith
  19. Chapter 13: Hope
  20. Chapter 14: Charity
  21. Prayer to Obtain a Favor Through the Intercession of Venerable Fulton J Sheen