 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
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 pages
...Demonstrations of God from Nature, Evidences of Christianity and the like. Evidences of Christianity! l am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of...self-knowledge of his need of it; and you may safely trust to its own Evidence" (ibid., 272). See also John Spencer Hill, ed., introduction to lmagination in... | |
 | Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 pages
...Senses." In his conclusion to Aids to Reflection (1825), and in allusion to Paley, Coleridge wrote: "Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the Word....and you may safely trust it to its own Evidence." 54 The impact of romanticism on Christian thought became apparent in Friedrich Schleiermacher's On... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Treloar - 1998 - 486 pages
...approvingly Coleridge's well known outburst: "Evidences of Christianity ... I am weary of the word. Make the man feel the want of it. Rouse him, if you can, to...self-knowledge of his need of it; and you may safely trust to its own evidence." RCC(1871)82. 56 Mansel, Limits of Religious Thought; & JB Mozley, Eight Lectures... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...Physico-theology, Demonstrations of God from Nature, Evidences of Christianity, &c. &c.," exclaiming, "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." l * But if by 1851, when Emerson's friend... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - 1092 pages
...Christianity, even in its most orthodox form, in speaking of its external attestations, impatiently exclaims, 'Evidences of Christianity! I am weary of the word: make a man feel the want of it ... and you may safely trust it to its own evidence.'48 [70] But still further: Paley's well-known... | |
 | Herbert Schlossberg - 2000 - 420 pages
...believed was bankrupt, and if Paleyism were not jettisoned, it would continue to plague the faith. "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... | |
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