| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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