The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man to Ascertain His Capacity to Know and Serve God, and the Validity of the Principles Underlying the Defence of Theism |
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... thinking the contrary . Applicable both to Rational and Pre- sentative Intuition . Primitive belief not the result of mental impo- tence . The unthinkable distinguished from the inconceivable . Objec- tion that God is unknowable because ...
... thinking the contrary . Applicable both to Rational and Pre- sentative Intuition . Primitive belief not the result of mental impo- tence . The unthinkable distinguished from the inconceivable . Objec- tion that God is unknowable because ...
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... thinking persons ; it must be done anew from generation to generation if , in every period of intellectual ac- tivity and of advance in knowledge and culture , Christianity is to retain its preeminence as the light and inspiration of ...
... thinking persons ; it must be done anew from generation to generation if , in every period of intellectual ac- tivity and of advance in knowledge and culture , Christianity is to retain its preeminence as the light and inspiration of ...
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... thinking about general notions and propositions expressed in words . Abstract thinking is always indispensable . But in proportion as it becomes dominant and exclusive it shuts out realistic thinking about concrete realities ; and ...
... thinking about general notions and propositions expressed in words . Abstract thinking is always indispensable . But in proportion as it becomes dominant and exclusive it shuts out realistic thinking about concrete realities ; and ...
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... thinking of Calvin and the reformers . Thus these theologians concede the whole ground to the agnostic , who admits that religion is a matter of feeling and that the imagination in each generation may shape an object for it , but denies ...
... thinking of Calvin and the reformers . Thus these theologians concede the whole ground to the agnostic , who admits that religion is a matter of feeling and that the imagination in each generation may shape an object for it , but denies ...
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... thinking . " The speculation which entangles itself in this fruitless discussion merits the mockery of Mephistopheles in Faust : " I tell thee , a fellow who speculates is like a beast on a dry heath driven round and round by an evil ...
... thinking . " The speculation which entangles itself in this fruitless discussion merits the mockery of Mephistopheles in Faust : " I tell thee , a fellow who speculates is like a beast on a dry heath driven round and round by an evil ...
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Page 95 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 95 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
Page 326 - ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then, indeed, is he spoiled by vain philosophy; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.
Page 340 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side.
Page 407 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 190 - I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not...
Page 380 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 388 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 324 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 314 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...