The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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Page ii
... writing has been a very simple one ; I wished to show that theology is not religion , with the hope that I might help to break down parti- tion walls ; to ameliorate what the eloquent Bushnell calls baptized hatreds of the human race ...
... writing has been a very simple one ; I wished to show that theology is not religion , with the hope that I might help to break down parti- tion walls ; to ameliorate what the eloquent Bushnell calls baptized hatreds of the human race ...
Page vii
... writing has been a very simple one . I wished to show that theology is not religion ; with the hope that I might ... writers usually describe other religions ; for I ob- served that they habitually covered apparent contradictions and ...
... writing has been a very simple one . I wished to show that theology is not religion ; with the hope that I might ... writers usually describe other religions ; for I ob- served that they habitually covered apparent contradictions and ...
Page 18
... writing and conversation , but is no proof of the depravity of their morals . " Hindoo theology teaches that there exists an eternal unchangeable relation of mutual dependence between all things in the universe . The gods cannot exist ...
... writing and conversation , but is no proof of the depravity of their morals . " Hindoo theology teaches that there exists an eternal unchangeable relation of mutual dependence between all things in the universe . The gods cannot exist ...
Page 36
... writers in- tended thereby to express perceptions of divine truth , ob- tained by immediate revelations from God to the soul . " Any place where the mind of man can be undisturbed , is suitable for the worship of the Supreme Being ...
... writers in- tended thereby to express perceptions of divine truth , ob- tained by immediate revelations from God to the soul . " Any place where the mind of man can be undisturbed , is suitable for the worship of the Supreme Being ...
Page 44
... Writing . When the Eng- lish obtained leave to translate this Code , they were re- quired to promise that it should be bound in silk , or vel- vet , and by no means in any kind of leather , which , being the skin of an animal , was ...
... Writing . When the Eng- lish obtained leave to translate this Code , they were re- quired to promise that it should be bound in silk , or vel- vet , and by no means in any kind of leather , which , being the skin of an animal , was ...
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