The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures: Preached Before the University of Oxford, in the Year M.DCCC.LVIII, on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John BamptonJohn Murray, 1859 - 364 pages |
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Absolute and Infinite absolutely infinite admit analogy annihilates apprehended argument assertion Atheism attempt attributes authority believe Bishop Butler Christ Christian Christliche coëxistence conceive conception conclusion consciousness constitution contradiction criticism Deity distinction Divine Nature doctrine Dogmatism equally essence eternal evidence evil exhibit existence F. W. Newman fact faculties Faith feeling Fichte finite God's Hegel human consciousness human mind human reason human thought idea implies impossible inconceivable infinity inquiry intelligence intuition Kant knowledge language lative laws laws of thought Lecture Leibnitz ligion limits maintained man's manifest matter ment metaphysical miracles mode moral necessarily necessary ness NOTE notion object opposite Pantheism perfect phenomena philosophy Plato Plotinus possible principles Rationalism Rationalist reality regarded relation religion represent representation Revelation Schleiermacher sciousness Scripture sense soul speculative Spinoza spirit supposed Theol Theology theory things thou tion true unity universal Wegscheider Werke whole wisdom Xenophanes
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Page 168 - For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man: God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Page 157 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 241 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments.
Page 156 - God shouted for joy, but my mind was carried back to him, who, '• though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.
Page 91 - And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock : and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts : but my face shall not be seen.
Page 58 - For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, And his ears are open unto their prayers: But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
Page 149 - And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Page 216 - For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. 9 And there arose a great cry : and the Scribes that were of the Pharisees...
Page 164 - And the Catholic Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.
Page 199 - ... the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched?