Christian theism: the testimony to the existence and character of the Supreme being

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Conceptions of space and time 21 5 Ontology rests on psychology
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Existence of oneself and of the world
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Supposed dangers of speculation
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Modern philosophical systems
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Lockes system
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NewcastleonTyne
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Berkeleys idealism
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Humes scepticism 11 Scottish school 12 Kant 13 Later German systems 26 29 30 32
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ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE SECTION I
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ORIGIN OF ALL KNOWLEDGE IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS BY THE REASON PAGE 11 Knowledge of ...
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Appeal to common sense
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The mind and the world in mutual relation
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Fundamental cognition of power
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Experience Innate mental powers
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Primary experience
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Who made us thus ?
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The reason or intelligence
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All immediate knowledge is relative
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Mediate knowledge of real being
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Course of the inquiry
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CHAPTER IV
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Speculative theories
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Theories to be considered
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SECTION I
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The mind contributes to all knowledge
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Atheistic form
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Existence of other men
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Kant and Copernicus
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Idealism requires theism
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Berkeleys idealism
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The hylozoic The homœomerian
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The Democritic
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These theories still current
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Theory of development
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The Vestiges of Creation
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Philosophy of the theory 20 Atheistic material development ib 108
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Retort of idealism 25 Immaterial substance 125
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Monadology Atheism not always corporeal
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Monadology
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Creation of matter 131
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Dynamical theory of perception
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Dynamical theory of existence
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DOGMATIC OR POSITIVE ATHEISM PAGE 1 Assumes fate or chance
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One First Cause or many
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Many primitive substances
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Letters of the Iliad
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SECTION II
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Believes in science
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Its vain pretensions
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Its deficiencies
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Scepticism professes humility
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But not consistently
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Becomes dogmatic
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Reason looks beyond the relative
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CHAPTER VI
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Systems of pantheism
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SECTION I
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Modern spiritualism
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Odyle
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Remarks on this pantheism
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Account of it
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Spinozas pantheism
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Examination of Spinozas system
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Assumed impossibility of creation
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Only one substance
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Spinozas fatalism
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Is Spinozism atheistic?
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Ethics of the system
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Its false pretences
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SECTION III
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Divine fatalism
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Moral necessity
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Is human necessity pantheistic?
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Coexistence of finite and infinite
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Of transient causes with the Divine presence
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Of Divine sovereignty with freedom and prayer
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Evil inconsistent with pantheism
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THE DIRECT EVIDENCES OF NATURAL THEISM
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A priori proofs
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Limits of possible knowledge
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Lockes argument for the Being of God
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Relations to space
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Physical properties
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Rational cosmology
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Freewill and inertia
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SECTION III
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Mind free from physical necessity
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The will determined by motives
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Power of the reason
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Question of originating power
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Origin of motives
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Fatalism an assumption
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Freewill a practical truth
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Conclusion
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EVIDENCE OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE INFINITE BEING
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The question stated
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Kants antinomy
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CHAPTER V
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Only one proof
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CHAPTER VI
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Critique of the argument
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Like effects have like causes
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Extent of the inference
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Humes unique
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Supposed reductio ad absurdum
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Answer Deny the conclusion
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Deny the premises
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Comtes Positive Philosophy
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SECTION II
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Divine freedom and necessity
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Divine motives unsearchable
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CHAPTER VII
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Charge of anthropomorphism
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The word Person
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CHAPTER VIII
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Evidences in the feelings
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SENSE OF THE MARVELLOUS AND BEAUTIFUL PAG 3 Sense of the marvellous
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The marvellous in nature and in life
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The sense of the beautiful
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Beauties of science
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Not utilitarian
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SECTION II
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Evidences of immortality
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Marks of the Divine Character in nature
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SECTION III
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It is universal
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Pantheism in its relations to morality
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Atheism in its relations to morality
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The Epicurean system
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The Stoical morality
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SECTION IV
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Misery of indolence
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SECTION II
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Origin of the law
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THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINE CHARACTER
Search for an answer in facts of consciousness
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Perception and action
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The understanding
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The affections
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Perception
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Sensation
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Perception
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The will
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Simple faculties
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Chymical relations Varieties of substances 15
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Conclusion 379
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Human corruption of Gods work 380
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The Roman Church 386
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Perversions of Christian doctrine 392
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Practical atheism 398
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Repression of vice 403
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Natural virtues
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Pagina 333 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Pagina 329 - I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Pagina 333 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Pagina 185 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. [4] The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Pagina 277 - the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it.
Pagina 333 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him...
Pagina 373 - He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Pagina 251 - God in his generation," according to his rank and place, as well as his divine Master, whose advent he announced ; who " did not strive, nor cry, nor cause His voice to be heard in the streets, nor break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.
Pagina 366 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Pagina vi - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.

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