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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform ...

Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...service to philosophy the less, * [True, therefore, are the declarations of a pious philo-nphy: — "A God understood would be no God at all ; " — "...Divinity, in a certain sense, is revealed ; in a certain souse is concealed : He is at once known and unknown. But the last and highest consecration of all...
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The Christian Life, Social and Individual

Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 pages
...Hamilton's demonstration. We shall agree with the declarations on this subject, which he cites as those of a " pious philosophy :" — " A God understood...be no God at all ;" " To think that God is, as we think Him to be, is blasphemy." The general intellect of the race has always sought for, and believed...
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What is Revelation?: A Series of Sermons on the Epiphany, to which are Added ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 524 pages
...which he gives his own theological application of his position. The first occurs in a note to p. 15. "True, therefore, are the declarations of " a pious...a certain sense, is revealed ; in a certain sense con" cealed : He is at once known and unknown. But " the last and highest consecration of all true...
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What is Revelation? A series of sermons on the Epiphany. To which are added ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1859 - 516 pages
...which he gives his own theological application of his position. The first occurs in a note to p. 15. " True, therefore, are the declarations of " a pious...think that God is, as we can "' think him to be, is blasphemy.'—The Divinity, in " a certain sense, is revealed; in a certain sense con" cealed: He is...
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Sequel to the inquiry, What is revelation? in letters; containing a reply to ...

John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1860 - 332 pages
...Unconditioned and the theology which " its disciples have endeavoured to found upon it, ob" serves: ' True therefore are the declarations of a " ' pious...think that God is as we can "' think him to be, is blasphemy.'—The Divinity, in " ' a certain sense, is revealed; in a certain sense is "' concealed...
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For the educated laity. The Essence of Christianity, described with ...

Carl ULLMANN - 1860 - 228 pages
...from recognising the domain of knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. To think that God is, as we can think him to be, is blasphemy. He ia at once known and unknown. But the last and highest consecration of all true religion, must be...
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The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton

Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 pages
...existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.*] — Discussions. * [True, therefore, are the declarations of a pious...— The Divinity, in a certain sense, is revealed j in a certain sense, is concealed : He is at once known and unknown. But the last and highest consecration...
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The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton

Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 pages
...existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.*] — Discussions. * [True, therefore, are the declarations of a pious philosophy : "A God understood would be no God nt all ; " — "To think that God is, as we con think him to be, is blasphemy." — The Divinity, in...
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First Principles

Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...developments of theology, ending in such assertions as that " a God understood would be no God at all," and " to think that God is, as we can think him to be, is blasphemy," exhibit this recognition still more distinctly ; and it pervades all the cultivated theology of the...
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Substance and Shadow: Or, Morality and Religion in Their Relation to Life ...

Henry James - 1863 - 564 pages
...existence which in itself it is our highest wisdom to recognize as beyond the reach of Philosophy."1 "True therefore are the declarations of a pious Philosophy...God is as we can think Him to be, is blasphemy. The last and highest consecration of all true religion must be an altar : to the unknown and unknowable...
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