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LEADER: 04302cam a22005651a 4500
001 ocm00330643
003 OCoLC
005 20191109071904.6
008 720613s1958 nyu b 000 0 eng
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050 14 $aBX880$b.T84 v.29
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aCorte, Nicolas,$d1879-1971.
245 14 $aThe origins of man /$cby Nicolas Corte ; translated from the French by Eric Earnshaw Smith.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHawthorn Books,$c1958.
300 $a144 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aThe Twentieth century encyclopedia of Catholicism, v. 29. Section 3: The nature of man
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-144).
505 0 $aI. According to mythologies -- What is a myth? -- Usefulness of myth -- Varieties of myths -- According to primitive peoples -- According to secondary civilizations -- Egypt -- Babylonia -- Persia -- Hindu cosmogonies -- Chinese cosmogony -- Mexico and Peru -- The Greco-Roman world -- The myth of Prometheus -- Celtic cosmogony and theories -- Germanic cosmogony and theories -- II. Philosophy and the problem of Origins -- Philosophies and myths -- Pre-logical mentality -- The birth of philosophy -- The sages and the origins of man -- Differences in approach -- Pythagoras and the mysticism of numbers -- The atomistic theory -- The cosmogony of Plato -- The influence of Platonism -- Aristotle on the origins of man -- The Stoics and the origins of man -- Neoplatonic cosmogony -- A sketch of Indian and Chinese philosophies -- General survey
505 0 $aIII. Modern science: positive genealogies -- The coming of science -- Man's place in the universe -- The age of the world and the age of man -- Prehistory -- Earliest man -- The problem of dating -- The facts as present known -- The "anthropian" problem -- Neanderthal man -- Monogenism and polygenism -- IV. According to the Bible and church teaching -- A higher source of information -- Concordism and its illusions -- The two narratives of Genesis -- The patriarchal narrative -- Probable reasons for the second version -- The priestly narrative -- A short commentary -- The origin of evil -- Other biblical texts on the creation -- The creation in Christian tradition -- The teaching of St. Augustine -- Decisions of the church -- V. Comparisons, agreements and disagreements -- Creation in Christianity and mythology -- Babylonian mythology and the book of Genesis -- The creation of man -- The Bible cosmogony and philosophy -- Theology and astronomy -- The problem of evolution and transformism -- A brief examination of transformism -- Creationism -- Monogenism or polygenism? -- Counter-arguments -- Adam: individual or collective? -- The encyclical "Humani Generis."
520 $aThe focus is on man himself, on his origins, on the two constituent parts of his nature -- the body and the soul, in particular on the "dimensions" of that soul, i.e. the portion of the infinite which inheres in it; and finally on those still largely mysterious phenomena which form the subject-matter of the metaphysical sciences.
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650 0 $aHuman beings$xOrigin.
650 0 $aTheological anthropology$xChristianity.
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650 6 $aHomme$xOrigines.
650 6 $aAnthropologie théologique.
700 1 $aSmith, Eric Earnshaw,$etranslator.
830 0 $aTwentieth century encyclopedia of Catholicism.$nSection 3,$pNature of man ;$vv. 29.
938 $aBaker and Taylor$bBTCP$n58011596
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