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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... reason for a faith - faculty in every science as in theology . What is demanded of the theologian is that he show the synthesis of reason and faith ; that he show that the primitive belief in the supernatural and in a divinity is a ...
... reason for a faith - faculty in every science as in theology . What is demanded of the theologian is that he show the synthesis of reason and faith ; that he show that the primitive belief in the supernatural and in a divinity is a ...
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... Reason energizing in the universe , and the primary ground of all that is ; that the knowledge of God is not merely a ques- tionable belief to be remanded to the feelings and the imagination because it cannot be vindicated to the reason ...
... Reason energizing in the universe , and the primary ground of all that is ; that the knowledge of God is not merely a ques- tionable belief to be remanded to the feelings and the imagination because it cannot be vindicated to the reason ...
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... reason to what is unknown only from what is known . We cannot dive beneath all that is known and in the vacuum of total ignorance prove the reality of knowledge itself . We can reason only by the use of our own intellectual faculties ...
... reason to what is unknown only from what is known . We cannot dive beneath all that is known and in the vacuum of total ignorance prove the reality of knowledge itself . We can reason only by the use of our own intellectual faculties ...
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... Reason and the progressive realization of the ends which reason approves as worthy . The constitution of the universe therefore expresses these archetypal principles of Absolute Reason . Theism also teaches that man is in the image of ...
... Reason and the progressive realization of the ends which reason approves as worthy . The constitution of the universe therefore expresses these archetypal principles of Absolute Reason . Theism also teaches that man is in the image of ...
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... reason in the unity of a rational system . It is impossible for a rational being to rest in any thought as completed until this accord with reason is discovered . Prof. Bowen proposes to reduce all these principles to two : " All ...
... reason in the unity of a rational system . It is impossible for a rational being to rest in any thought as completed until this accord with reason is discovered . Prof. Bowen proposes to reduce all these principles to two : " All ...
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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...