Natural and Comparative Religion: An Inaugural Lecture

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Clarendon Press, 1912 - 31 Seiten
 

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Seite 4 - Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air?
Seite 24 - Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily.
Seite 2 - Man's conscious recognition of purposive intelligence and adaptability in the universe of things, on which he is dependent for his continued existence and wellbeing, and with which he endeavours to live in harmonious relations'.
Seite 2 - To be sure, the trust deed of this new foundation formally declares that " Comparative Religion shall be taken to mean the modes of causation, rites, observances and other concepts involved in the higher historical religions, as distinguished from the naturalistic ideas and fetishisms of the lower races of mankind.
Seite 24 - It would seem, then, that there is something true and divinely revealed, in every religion all over the earth, overloaded, as it may be, and at times even stifled by the impieties which the corrupt will and understanding of man have incorporated with it.
Seite 24 - Pigue at Rome the biglietto, formally announcing his elevation to the sacred college, Newman delivered an address to the distinguished company assembled to do him honour, in the course of which he reviewed his own life and work. His testimony of himself was that ' for thirty, forty, fifty years he had resisted, to the best of his power, the spirit of I iberalism in religion...
Seite 15 - And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and life rose over it all; my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.
Seite 2 - I think that it is plain from these words that by Comparative Religion the Statute means more than Religion studied by the comparative method; that an indication...
Seite 3 - Natural Religion is one, over against the many Religions in which men have expressed their various thoughts and fancies about the mind and purpose of which they divined traces in the world around them...
Seite 20 - Müller could do at that time. He had VOL. I. A no alternative. As the foundation of this new science had only just been laid, he could but submit the plan of the building to his readers and hearers. How powerfully he afterwards himself contributed to the building up of our science I need hardly remind you ; and of this his Gifford Lectures recently delivered in the University of Glasgow afford the last and most conclusive proof. We must cordially appreciate...

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