 Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of it ; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of it ; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, — remembering only the express declaration of Christ...  Matthew Arnold: Poet and Critic - Page 9by Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tod E. Jones - 2003 - 362 pages
...offense. Still, the frustration that Coleridge felt in reaction to the popularity of Paley is patent: "Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the Word....and you may safely trust it to its own Evidence." 154 Coleridge places the evidences of Christianity where the Gospels place them, in the experience... | |
 | Gillis J. Harp - 2003 - 264 pages
...echoes that of Coleridge, whom Brooks had read as a seminarian. Coleridge commented in this regard: "Evidences of Christianity, I am weary of the word. Make a man feel his want of it ... and you may safely trust it to its own Evidences."" Brooks referred to the faith... | |
 | Denys Leighton - 2004 - 402 pages
...Theology, Physio-Theology, Demonstrations of God from Nature, Evidences of Christianity, and the like. Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the word....it; rouse him if you can, to the self-knowledge of the need of it; and you may safely trust to its own Evidence"' (Religion in the Age of Romanticism,... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 2005 - 234 pages
...Reflection to see ample evidence for this in the religious sphere, something summed up in his exclamation, "Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the word....him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need for it; and you may safely trust it to its own Evidence. . . ."6 There is much of the same feel in... | |
 | Avery Dulles - 2005 - 452 pages
...Coleridge and Christian Doctrine (Cambridge, Mass., 1969), 5—6. of the Word. Make a man feel his want of it; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge...it; and you may safely trust it to its own Evidence — remembering only the express declaration of Christ himself: No man cometh to me unless the Father... | |
 | James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza - 456 pages
...demonstrations of God from Nature, evidences of Christianity, and the like. Evidences of Christianity! \ am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of...it; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence [italics added] remembering only the express declaration of Christ himself: No man cometb to me, unless... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...himself through the snare of thorny speculation, he commended it to others with impassioned fervor. " Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word....; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, remembering only the express declaration of Christ : No man cometh to me unless the Father leadeth... | |
 | 1837 - 420 pages
...true; and we want no other evidence." It was in this feeling, obviously, that Coleridge exclaimed, " Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word....and you may safely trust it to its own evidence." * That this way of thinking is unphilosophical, that it does not properly perceive the very ground... | |
 | Adolphus William Ward - 1907 - 388 pages
...someone called a halt to the prevailing mode in theological literature. Evidences of Ckriatianity! I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of...if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of it ; aud you may safely trust it to its own evidence. Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit was published... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 584 pages
...of Coleridge. " Evidences of Christianity,*' said he ; "I am weary of the word. Make a man feel his want of it ; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of it, and yon may safely trust to ÍÍ» otm rnWi-ner*." In one of the sketches we are told, and the narrative... | |
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