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From pagan to Christian by Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976 is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Lin YuTang, world-renowned philosopher and scholar, here sets down for the first time the full story of his conversion from paganism to Christianity, providing an exciting account of a modern man’s spiritual pilgrimage.From the days of his youth in a small Chinese village, the author describes for us the formative sights and sounds—as well as the stimulating thoughts—which filled his inquiring and perceptive mind. The wisdom and glory of the East filled the days of his adolescent life in Peking and gradually coaxed the young student away from the Christian faith into which he had been born. Then began a series of adventures in belief as the maturing man made his way through the visionary worlds of the great minds of the Orient. The words of Confucius, Mencius, Laotse, Chuangtse, and Buddha trace out the path as Dr. Lin weighs one philosopher after another in his constant striving for religious truth. But it is not until he returns to the faith of his father that he can say, “The world of Jesus is the world of sunlight by comparison with that of all the sages and philosophers and the schoolmen of any country. Like the Jungfrau which stands above the glaciers in the world of snow and
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- Author
- Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Published
- 1959
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Religious
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