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Page xvi
... evil : Monistic and Dualistic answers , especially Marcion's ... ... ... 200 , 201 But the Divine Unity overcomes all : position of Irenæus , & c . , widely accepted : Origen's cosmogony a theodicy . Prevalence of the simpler view seen ...
... evil : Monistic and Dualistic answers , especially Marcion's ... ... ... 200 , 201 But the Divine Unity overcomes all : position of Irenæus , & c . , widely accepted : Origen's cosmogony a theodicy . Prevalence of the simpler view seen ...
Page xvii
... evil emerges : attempts at solution . ( a ) Universality of Providence denied ( Platonic and Oriental ) ... ... ... ( b ) Reality of apparent evils denied ( Stoic ) This not pertinent to moral evil , hence : ( c ) Theory of human ...
... evil emerges : attempts at solution . ( a ) Universality of Providence denied ( Platonic and Oriental ) ... ... ... ( b ) Reality of apparent evils denied ( Stoic ) This not pertinent to moral evil , hence : ( c ) Theory of human ...
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... evil influences which might reside in it , actually cleansed the soul.1 The conception of the process as symbolical came with the growth of later ideas of the relation of matter to spirit . It is , so to speak , a ration- alizing ...
... evil influences which might reside in it , actually cleansed the soul.1 The conception of the process as symbolical came with the growth of later ideas of the relation of matter to spirit . It is , so to speak , a ration- alizing ...
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... evil , the good would be found largely to predominate.1 There were other apologists who made a distinction between the divine and the human elements the poets sometimes spoke , it was said , on their own account : some of their poetry ...
... evil , the good would be found largely to predominate.1 There were other apologists who made a distinction between the divine and the human elements the poets sometimes spoke , it was said , on their own account : some of their poetry ...
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... evil demon who dwelt at Damascus should be overcome , and the prophecy was fulfilled when the Magi came to worship Christ . The convergence of a large number of such interpretations upon the Gospel history was a powerful argument ...
... evil demon who dwelt at Damascus should be overcome , and the prophecy was fulfilled when the Magi came to worship Christ . The convergence of a large number of such interpretations upon the Gospel history was a powerful argument ...
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