This book contains five parts, all relating to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dennett describes "the God Delusion" and hopes that practitioners of religion will shrink its maleficent role in civilization. The question addressed in this book, Is God Necessary?, is not new but is of perennial importance.

In James Luther Adams one finds the curious, and sometimes contradictory, combination of medieval saint, Renaissance humanist, Marxist critic, Enlightenment encyclopedist, sectarian enthusiast, and bourgeois compulsive.

Chacun des 77 poèmes de ce recueil est une célébration de la vie face à la tragédie et à la misère humaine, ainsi qu'une affirmation du divin en chaque homme ...

The emphasis throughout is on world affirmation and reverence for life. Wherever necessary all these prayers of power have been degenderized. Archaic language is avoided.