Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1907 - 608 pages |
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... Feeling or knowledge as mo- tive of action . - The object of religion must be defined . - Fichte on atheism . - Goethe and Lavater . - Different classes of defini tions . - Practical religion . - Kant . - Caird . - Pfleiderer . - Marti ...
... Feeling or knowledge as mo- tive of action . - The object of religion must be defined . - Fichte on atheism . - Goethe and Lavater . - Different classes of defini tions . - Practical religion . - Kant . - Caird . - Pfleiderer . - Marti ...
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... feels himself bound to employ what is over and above , for the good of his fellow men , he says , — ' I , having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God , that is , of the Being , Nature , and ...
... feels himself bound to employ what is over and above , for the good of his fellow men , he says , — ' I , having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God , that is , of the Being , Nature , and ...
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... feeling of awe inspired by thoughts of divine powers . Thus Cicero 2 states , religio est quae superioris cujusdam naturae quam divinam vocant curam caerimoniamque affert , ' Religion is what brings with it the care and cult of some ...
... feeling of awe inspired by thoughts of divine powers . Thus Cicero 2 states , religio est quae superioris cujusdam naturae quam divinam vocant curam caerimoniamque affert , ' Religion is what brings with it the care and cult of some ...
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... feeling of reverence for the gods and to the outward manifestation of that reverence in worship and sacrifice . There are some late writers who use religio in the sense of faith ; for instance , Cassiodorus ( died 562 , A.D. ) ...
... feeling of reverence for the gods and to the outward manifestation of that reverence in worship and sacrifice . There are some late writers who use religio in the sense of faith ; for instance , Cassiodorus ( died 562 , A.D. ) ...
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... feeling of awe in their hearts at the sight of anything that seemed to them overpowering and beyond the grasp of their senses and their understanding . They did not care much whence that feeling arose , but they called it religio , that ...
... feeling of awe in their hearts at the sight of anything that seemed to them overpowering and beyond the grasp of their senses and their understanding . They did not care much whence that feeling arose , but they called it religio , that ...
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