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... superhuman , extra - terrestrial , preternatural 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 ...
... superhuman , extra - terrestrial , preternatural 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 ...
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... superhuman and transcendental 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 ...
... superhuman and transcendental 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 ...
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... superhuman sublimities ? Man sorely needs a religion to make life more spiritual in this world . And the priests only offer him gratuitous guessing about another world . See what realities men neglect for the sake of these imaginations ...
... superhuman sublimities ? Man sorely needs a religion to make life more spiritual in this world . And the priests only offer him gratuitous guessing about another world . See what realities men neglect for the sake of these imaginations ...
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... superhuman and transcendental about them . But those who are willing to reduce religion altogether to an Absolute and Incomprehensible Almighty , domin- ant in the Universe , but not specially or expressly in any relation to man , are ...
... superhuman and transcendental about them . But those who are willing to reduce religion altogether to an Absolute and Incomprehensible Almighty , domin- ant in the Universe , but not specially or expressly in any relation to man , are ...
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... superhuman , absolute , transcendental will , which seems to exclude the element of nobility , in a human sense , which approaches a con- tradiction in terms , when we attribute volition ( i.e. , a desire to obtain some end not yet ...
... superhuman , absolute , transcendental will , which seems to exclude the element of nobility , in a human sense , which approaches a con- tradiction in terms , when we attribute volition ( i.e. , a desire to obtain some end not yet ...
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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...