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... creeds , the many points of sympathy are constantly bringing us together . We feel it : they feel it . We have never doubted it , and are always ready to show it . They are coming to ac- knowledge it , as they know us better , however ...
... creeds , the many points of sympathy are constantly bringing us together . We feel it : they feel it . We have never doubted it , and are always ready to show it . They are coming to ac- knowledge it , as they know us better , however ...
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... creed substituted for a hypothetical creed . This is the key of the problem . The difference is great , but perfectly intelligible . The issue must be decided by the general cast of the mind , and the entire mental and moral attitude of ...
... creed substituted for a hypothetical creed . This is the key of the problem . The difference is great , but perfectly intelligible . The issue must be decided by the general cast of the mind , and the entire mental and moral attitude of ...
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... creed , this follows . The creed is detached from life , fact , truth , and civilisation . In the days of Christ and of Paul , of St. Augustine and St. Bernard , Luther and Calvin , nay even as late as the day of Bossuet and Fénelon ...
... creed , this follows . The creed is detached from life , fact , truth , and civilisation . In the days of Christ and of Paul , of St. Augustine and St. Bernard , Luther and Calvin , nay even as late as the day of Bossuet and Fénelon ...
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... creed is being con- stantly pushed further and further away from practical things and the realm of solid knowledge , so that a re- ligion of God and of Heaven has now almost nothing to say about nineteen - twentieths of all that makes ...
... creed is being con- stantly pushed further and further away from practical things and the realm of solid knowledge , so that a re- ligion of God and of Heaven has now almost nothing to say about nineteen - twentieths of all that makes ...
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... its last embers . Tender - hearted priests can hardly bring themselves to pronounce the frightful comminations of the Athanasian creed , and few devout Christians really insist on them and enjoy them . Hell ORTHODOX CRITICISM CONTINUED 23.
... its last embers . Tender - hearted priests can hardly bring themselves to pronounce the frightful comminations of the Athanasian creed , and few devout Christians really insist on them and enjoy them . Hell ORTHODOX CRITICISM CONTINUED 23.
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Page 181 - ... the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. I do not say that other and more intelligent forces than this were not opposed to the Oxford movement : but this was the force which really beat it ; this was the force which Dr. Newman...