“Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.” MenHumansReligionOrderBeliefAttitudeSacredCosmosBeing Human Author:Peter L. Berger
“There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayShouldMomentsEarthSpeakGivenForceVoiceDarkSilenceHeardThis WorldBeatsMen And WomenEarsNoiseRollingThunderMoment Of SilenceTreetops Author:Peter L. Berger
“On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.” MenWayMaySaidBodyHandsAnimalBalanceContraryAgain And AgainEntityOrganismsIdentical Author:Peter L. Berger
“The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.” MenHumansStillsMomentsBodyProcessEnvironmentDevelopmentBirthBecomingStandingDeterminedDevelopingContinuingOrganismsInterference Author:Peter L. Berger
