The Greatest Thing in the World
Henry Drummond · 1884
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About the book
A scientist's anatomy of love: Drummond takes Paul's famous chapter apart into nine ingredients — patience, kindness, humility and the rest — and argues that love is not a feeling but a practice with a syllabus. A half-hour address that has outlived whole libraries.
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Part 1 · Why love outranks faith and hope. The first six slides, free.
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Drummond opens with the oldest question there is, the one the ancient philosophers called the summum bonum: what is the supreme good? He puts it plainly. "You have life before you. Once only you can live it." So what is the one thing worth wanting above everything else?
For centuries the popular answer inside religion was faith. Believe rightly, and the rest follows. Drummond, a devout man speaking to devout people, answers flatly: "Well, we are wrong."
He is not being clever. He is pointing at a verdict already written in the thirteenth chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, where faith, hope and love stand side by side and one of them is chosen: "The greatest of these is love."
Inside the course
12 parts- «The greatest of these»: why love outranks faith and hopeFree above
- The spectrum of love: nine colours of one light
- Patience and kindness, the first two ingredients
- Generosity, humility, courtesy
Questions
Is The Greatest Thing in the World free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
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