title: Spiritual and Religious: The Gospel in an Age of Paganism
author:  N. T. Wright 
description: "An urgent book for the timespassionate, brilliant, filled with hope." (Timothy George, Samford University)
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  # Spiritualism New And Old
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  Etext by Ian Hillman
  
  
  IT IS A pleasure to read Mr. Owen's books, the evidences of his
  
  
  kindly nature, and of his intelligent interest in all the questions of
  
  
  the hour, so abound in them; and I doubt not, therefore, that his
  
  
  present work will attract many readers outside the pale of the
  
  
  spiritualistic faith. It is, in fact, addressed to such, being an
  
  
  attempt to persuade them that Spiritualism inherits of Romanism and
  
  
  Protestantism in the maintenance of the Christian doctrine of
  
  
  immortality. He thinks that “religion, such as Christ taught, though
  
  
  sure to prevail in the end, is yet for the time hard pressed; on one
  
  
  hand by the hosts enlisted under the banner of infallibility, on the
  
  
  other by the vigorous pioneers of science: and that in this strait
  
  
  experimental evidence of modern s