The Christian Examiner, Volume 84Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1868 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... things are so , if the liberal faith is good for unlettered men , and if knowledge is not essential to its growth and strength , where is the use , it may be asked , of any education for the ministry ? Why should we spend so much time ...
... things are so , if the liberal faith is good for unlettered men , and if knowledge is not essential to its growth and strength , where is the use , it may be asked , of any education for the ministry ? Why should we spend so much time ...
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... thing and a different thing from the religions all around . The liberal faith cannot be preached to these Christian communities as Christianity was preached two or three centuries ago by John Eliot or Father Marquette to the red savages ...
... thing and a different thing from the religions all around . The liberal faith cannot be preached to these Christian communities as Christianity was preached two or three centuries ago by John Eliot or Father Marquette to the red savages ...
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... thing disgusting to honest souls , it is the confident scorn with which those who have never studied the Scripture speak of its precepts and its history , -the rash judgments of this treasured book by those who have only touched it in a ...
... thing disgusting to honest souls , it is the confident scorn with which those who have never studied the Scripture speak of its precepts and its history , -the rash judgments of this treasured book by those who have only touched it in a ...
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... thing . For certainly , with all the criti- cisms of the Bible , it has not yet been made a superfluous appendage to our ... things in the liberal view , are involved in the VOL . LXXXIV . -NEW SERIES , VOL . V. NO . I. 2 science of the ...
... thing . For certainly , with all the criti- cisms of the Bible , it has not yet been made a superfluous appendage to our ... things in the liberal view , are involved in the VOL . LXXXIV . -NEW SERIES , VOL . V. NO . I. 2 science of the ...
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... things in which the work of God appears , - mathematics and physics , economics and politics , not less than ... thing wise to say of them . 4. The very boast of liberal religion , that its scheme is so comprehensive , lays upon it ...
... things in which the work of God appears , - mathematics and physics , economics and politics , not less than ... thing wise to say of them . 4. The very boast of liberal religion , that its scheme is so comprehensive , lays upon it ...
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