DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-K058-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/oman-john-wood-1860-1939/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/oman-john-wood-1860-1939/v-1
Article Summary
A central theme of John Wood Oman’s writings is the possibility and actuality of knowledge that is not gained through science. He rejects as too simplistic the mechanistic view of the world. His belief in God rests not on the arguments of natural theology, but on the force and content of religious experience. The source of religion is to be found in our sense of the supernatural, from which stems also our moral dependence on God.
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