Excerpt from Practice and Science of Religion a Study of Method: In Comparative Religion
These lectures were delivered at the General Theological Seminary in New York during January and February of this year. The general topic assigned for the lectures was Comparative Religion. My interest in this subject, persistent for many years, was first aroused by the Paddock Lecturer for 1882, a man who stimulated all my ideals, who revealed to me the charm of the scholar's life, and who bound my life to his in loyal admiration forever. To him I have ventured to dedicate this work.
The general method which I have followed and tried further to develop I owe to lectures of Kaftan; to work under Harnack in several successive seminars; and last of all to personal suggestions from Windelband, in lectures and on delightful strolls up the valleys of the Vosges. With classes at the university, my treatment of the subject has adapted itself to the men with whom, from year to year, I have studied the Science of Religion. The religious traditions of these men are divers; but Jews and mystics, Buddhists and Vedantists, are one with Christians and agnostics in their desire to find common ground. The search for points of contact between different religions has been encouraged in every way; points of contrast have often seemed more superficial, and obvious enough.
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