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... for the coming of a faith and a society that should be worthier of the Master he loved and the Church he served . A. M. FAIRBAIRN . OXFORD , July , 1890 . THE Hibbert Trustees cannot add this volume to their series X. PREFACE .
... for the coming of a faith and a society that should be worthier of the Master he loved and the Church he served . A. M. FAIRBAIRN . OXFORD , July , 1890 . THE Hibbert Trustees cannot add this volume to their series X. PREFACE .
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... Faith " assumes the sense it had in Philo 3. But the speculative temper remained active upon the “ rule of faith : ” γνώσις alongside πίστις , especially at Alexandria : Origen Hence tendency to : ... ... ( 1 ) Identify a fact with ...
... Faith " assumes the sense it had in Philo 3. But the speculative temper remained active upon the “ rule of faith : ” γνώσις alongside πίστις , especially at Alexandria : Origen Hence tendency to : ... ... ( 1 ) Identify a fact with ...
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... faith . It may show some things to be derived which we thought to be original ; and some things to be compound which we thought to be incapable of analysis ; and some things to be phantoms which we thought to be realities . But it will ...
... faith . It may show some things to be derived which we thought to be original ; and some things to be compound which we thought to be incapable of analysis ; and some things to be phantoms which we thought to be realities . But it will ...
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... faith and knowledge and science , on hope and love , on repentance and temperance and the fear of God : " and he goes in detail through many doctrines , speculative as well as ethical , either to show that they were borrowed from ...
... faith and knowledge and science , on hope and love , on repentance and temperance and the fear of God : " and he goes in detail through many doctrines , speculative as well as ethical , either to show that they were borrowed from ...
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... Faith consists : and that we should pass by the superfluous matters that lie outside them , which vex and detain us in vain over points that contribute nothing to the end in view . There are others who think that philosophy will prove ...
... Faith consists : and that we should pass by the superfluous matters that lie outside them , which vex and detain us in vain over points that contribute nothing to the end in view . There are others who think that philosophy will prove ...
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Page 170 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page xxiv - The Sermon on the Mount is the promulgation of a new law of conduct; it assumes beliefs rather than formulates them ; the theological conceptions which underlie it belong to the ethical rather than the speculative side of theology; metaphysics are wholly absent. The Nicene Creed is a statement partly of historical facts and partly of dogmatic inferences ; the metaphysical terms which it contains would probably have been unintelligible to the first disciples ; ethics have no place in it. The one belongs...
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Page 253 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.
Page 302 - We thank thee, our Father, for the holy vine of David thy servant, which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.