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Download or read book Submitting to Freedom written by Bennett Ramsey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramsey believes that James is best understood when considered within his historical context: a representative of a society and culture struggling to come to terms with modernity. Much of James's religious work is a direct reflection of what has been called "the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age," a crisis which Ramsey examines in illuminating detail. James's religious vision, in Ramsey's view, hinges on the recognition and acceptance of "contingency" - the knowledge that we are at the mercy of change and chance. With so little else to rely on, James believed, people must learn to submit freely and responsibly into one another's care.