The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, Part 2D. Appleton, 1870 - Christianity |
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... positive to the negative in himself , whether it will or will not complement all his deficiencies . Revelation does , or claims to do , this , and Christianity especially does so , by revealing the Infinite as united to the Finite , as ...
... positive to the negative in himself , whether it will or will not complement all his deficiencies . Revelation does , or claims to do , this , and Christianity especially does so , by revealing the Infinite as united to the Finite , as ...
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... positive Negations are nothing - Private judgment the negation of other judgments - Private judgment the negation of absolute Truth - The proper function of private judgment - It is the resolution of what is true to the individual self ...
... positive Negations are nothing - Private judgment the negation of other judgments - Private judgment the negation of absolute Truth - The proper function of private judgment - It is the resolution of what is true to the individual self ...
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... positive religion is simply the question between induction and deduction . But there is this difference : the inductive process does not lead up to certainty , whereas the deductive process does . The induc- tive process dies away in ...
... positive religion is simply the question between induction and deduction . But there is this difference : the inductive process does not lead up to certainty , whereas the deductive process does . The induc- tive process dies away in ...
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... the sole one admissible . Philosophy can only be a positive science when it pos- sesses a method truly demonstrative , that is to say , one which conducts rigorously and incontestibly to certainty . Now this 18 CHRISTIANITY.
... the sole one admissible . Philosophy can only be a positive science when it pos- sesses a method truly demonstrative , that is to say , one which conducts rigorously and incontestibly to certainty . Now this 18 CHRISTIANITY.
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... positive and negative electricity , decomposing substances and re- composing them . The whole visible universe presents the antinomy of light and darkness , movement and repose , force and matter , heat and cold , the one and the ...
... positive and negative electricity , decomposing substances and re- composing them . The whole visible universe presents the antinomy of light and darkness , movement and repose , force and matter , heat and cold , the one and the ...
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Page 320 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 193 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body : so also is Christ. — For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 293 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 320 - The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture ; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men.
Page 129 - But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Page 257 - From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 343 - For thou hast said in thine heart. I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 193 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 240 - Whence heavy persecution shall arise On all, who in the worship persevere Of spirit and truth; the rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied...
Page 129 - The head of every man is Christ, — and the head of Christ is...