I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most... Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - Page 501by George Campbell - 1807 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bennett Black - Historiography - 1926 - 220 pages
...can possibly be imagined." — Of Miracles, Part I. • Enquiry, p. 119. 1 " Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason ; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a test as it is, by no means, fitted to endure." — Enquiry, p. 130. province of the intellect alone... | |
| H. N. Fairchild - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 428 pages
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason: and it is a sure...a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure." But this undoubtedly malicious argument is uttered by a man who denies the validity of reason without... | |
| George Stern - Philosophy - 1971 - 172 pages
...employment of different faculties, and for Wittgenstein a matter of different planes of meaning: Religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. 16 Suppose that someone believed in the Last Judgement, and I don't, does this mean that I believe... | |
| Justo L. Gonzalez - Religion - 1984 - 438 pages
...-= O .2 O o 3 Jü , _u^ U _ U >P: t« ~^ 3 ^ (X l4/An Age of Dogma and Doubt Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. DAVID HUME The sixteenth century had been a period of enormous religious vitality that swept Protestants... | |
| Colin Brown, Steve Wilkens, Alan G. Padgett - Christianity - 1990 - 456 pages
...violation of the laws of nature."" It remained for Hume to draw the conclusion that "our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure."38 If the first half of this sentence sounded like an endorsement of piety, the second half... | |
| Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 pages
...religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves... | |
| David Hume, Eric Steinberg - Philosophy - 1993 - 170 pages
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves... | |
| William L. Portier - Religion - 1994 - 394 pages
...the eighteenth century philosopher David Hume ended his essay "Of Miracles": Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure. This passage should be an insult to any intelligent Christian. If it is true, then "faith" can be used... | |
| Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...of religious truth. In a very famous (and sarcastic) sentence, he adds. 215 Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. He makes it clear that this critique of miracles can also "be applied, without any variation, to prophesies"... | |
| R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - Religion - 1997 - 340 pages
...Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded on Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure...such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure. To make this more evident, let us examine those miracles, related in scripture; and not to lose ourselves... | |
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