The Philosophy of ReligionScribner's Sons, 1920 - 602 pagina's |
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Absolute activity agnosticism analogy anthropomorphism become Buddhism centres of experience character Christian civilised claim conceived conception connexion culture Deism Deity depend development of religion divine doctrine doubt elements epistemology ethical evolution existence explain expression fact faith feeling finite goal gods ground growth harmony Hegel Hence higher historic human ideal immanent implied individual interaction Kant knowledge Leibniz magical man's means ment metaphysical mind monads monism Monotheism moral evil movement nature object organisation Pantheism Philosophy of Religion Plato polytheism possible postulate present primitive principle problem progress psychical psychological purely realised reality reason recognise reflexion relation religious consciousness religious development religious experience religious ideas religious spirit revealed scientific self-conscious sense social soul speculative stage teleological Theism theology theory things thinking thought tion transcendent true truth ultimate Union Theological Seminary unity universe validity whole worship
Populaire passages
Pagina 483 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
Pagina 207 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Pagina 521 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Pagina 22 - On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. Now whatever its residual difficulties may be, experience shows that it certainly does work, and that the problem is to build it out and determine it so that it will combine satisfactorily with all the other working truths.
Pagina 552 - ... that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system...
Pagina 200 - The theory of evolution encourages no millennial anticipations. If, for millions of years, our globe has taken the upward road, yet, some time, the summit will be reached and the downward route will be commenced. The most daring imagination will hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year.
Pagina 515 - In sober truth, nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another are Nature's everyday performances.
Pagina 128 - Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one.
Pagina 106 - ... lashed together with strips of bark, in the form of a table, with its four feet stuck in the ground.