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... theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls - Localization of the Fu- ture Life Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise , Isles of the Blest -Subterranean Hades or Sheol - Sun , Moon , Stars - Heaven - Histori- cal ...
... theology , in narratives of visits to the Regions of Souls - Localization of the Fu- ture Life Distant earthly region : Earthly Paradise , Isles of the Blest -Subterranean Hades or Sheol - Sun , Moon , Stars - Heaven - Histori- cal ...
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... theological adversaries , and the question is , how much of them did the Manichæans really and soberly believe ? Allowing for exaggeration and constructive imputation , there is reason to consider the account at least founded on fact ...
... theological adversaries , and the question is , how much of them did the Manichæans really and soberly believe ? Allowing for exaggeration and constructive imputation , there is reason to consider the account at least founded on fact ...
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... theologian here and there into our own times . It would be strange were it not so . It is in the very nature of the development of religion that speculations of the earlier culture should dwindle to survivals , yet be again and again ...
... theologian here and there into our own times . It would be strange were it not so . It is in the very nature of the development of religion that speculations of the earlier culture should dwindle to survivals , yet be again and again ...
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... theological doctrine of metem- psychosis was worked out in long - past ages , may be found in the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to the extreme the intellectual tracks of the lower races . In the ...
... theological doctrine of metem- psychosis was worked out in long - past ages , may be found in the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to the extreme the intellectual tracks of the lower races . In the ...
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... theologians , it is instructive to cite the remarkable passage of Origen , where he speaks of " corporeal matter , of ... theology , we now take up a series of beliefs higher in prac- tical moment , and more clearly conceived in savage ...
... theologians , it is instructive to cite the remarkable passage of Origen , where he speaks of " corporeal matter , of ... theology , we now take up a series of beliefs higher in prac- tical moment , and more clearly conceived in savage ...
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Page 50 - Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
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