 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology....  Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lathrop Motley - Page 94by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 556 pages
...aisles of granite his soul's worship is builded. .... Man is the wonder-maker. He is seen amid miracles. The stationariness of religion ; the assumption that...is closed ; the fear of degrading the character of Jesns by representing him as a man, indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1847 - 492 pages
...for the world. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that the ago of inspiration is passed, that the Bible is closed ; the fear of degrading the...show us that God is, not was ; that he speaketh, not •pake. The true Christianity — a faith like Christ's in the infmitude of man — is lost. None... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1847 - 508 pages
...for the world. The stationarinesa of religion, the assumption that the age of inspiration is passed, that the Bible is closed ; the fear of degrading the...Jesus, by representing him as a man, indicate with sufficienlclearnens the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher, to show us that... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1847 - 494 pages
...of degrading the character of Jesus, by representing him as a man, indicate with sufficientclearness the falsehood of our theology. It is the office of a true teacher, to show us ilmt God is, not was ; that he speaketh, not spake. The true Christianity — a faith like Christ's... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1847 - 502 pages
...for the world. The stationariness of rel1gion, the assumption that the age of inspiration is passed, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus, by representing htm as a man, indicate with sufficient clearness the falsebood of our theology. It is the office of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...is the wonder-worker. He is seen amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion ; the assumption that...is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. The true Christianity—a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man—is lost. None believeth in the soul... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...is the wonder-worker. He is seen amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion ; the assumption that...is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake. The true Christianity,—a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of man,—is lost. None believeth in the soul... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...is the wonder worker. He is seen amid miracles. All men bless and curse. He saith yea and nay, only. The stationariness of religion ; the assumption that...that God is, not was ; that he speaketh, not spake." " Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone ; to refuse the good models, even those which are... | |
 | 1853 - 642 pages
...contain ideas and truths as yet undiscovered in all their meaning, but which an apseen amid miracles. The stationariness of religion, the assumption that...that God is, not was ; that He speaketh, not spake." " Once leave your own knowledge of God, your own sentiment, and take secondary knowledge, as St Paul's,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...carrying three insides.' his soul's worship is builded Man is the wondermaker. He is seen amid miracles. The stationariness of religion ; the assumption that...us that God is, not was — that He speaketh, not spoke. The true Christianity — a faith like Christ's in the mfinitude of man — is lost. None believeth... | |
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