Theism: Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 |
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... prejudice for or against any particular an- swer . Its only legitimate purpose is to help us A to realise aright our true relation to the question . LECT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO BE DIS- CUSSED WHENCE AND HOW WE GET IDEA OF GOD,
... prejudice for or against any particular an- swer . Its only legitimate purpose is to help us A to realise aright our true relation to the question . LECT ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO BE DIS- CUSSED WHENCE AND HOW WE GET IDEA OF GOD,
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Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 Robert Flint. to realise aright our true relation to the question . We can never in any investigation see too early or too clearly the true and full significance , the gen- eral and special bearings of ...
Being the Baird Lecture for 1876 Robert Flint. to realise aright our true relation to the question . We can never in any investigation see too early or too clearly the true and full significance , the gen- eral and special bearings of ...
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... relationship of religion to science . The change is certainly one for the better . It is not wholly good only because scientific men in their excursions into the domain of religion are too frequently chargeable with a one - sidedness of ...
... relationship of religion to science . The change is certainly one for the better . It is not wholly good only because scientific men in their excursions into the domain of religion are too frequently chargeable with a one - sidedness of ...
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... relationship to , and dependence on , a higher and mysterious agency , with all the thoughts , emotions , and actions which proceed therefrom . The communion may be dark and gross , and find expression in impure and bloody rites , or it ...
... relationship to , and dependence on , a higher and mysterious agency , with all the thoughts , emotions , and actions which proceed therefrom . The communion may be dark and gross , and find expression in impure and bloody rites , or it ...
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... relationship to a worshipped being . source . Is there any truth which can be affirmed to belong universally to this consciousness ? If there be , it will hold good universally of religion , and the recognition of it will advance us a ...
... relationship to a worshipped being . source . Is there any truth which can be affirmed to belong universally to this consciousness ? If there be , it will hold good universally of religion , and the recognition of it will advance us a ...
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