Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... Greek philosophy . Their religion , if we may use that word in its later and far more general sense , was very much what Spinoza in his Tractatus theologico - politicus thinks that practical religion ought always to be , simple piety ...
... Greek philosophy . Their religion , if we may use that word in its later and far more general sense , was very much what Spinoza in his Tractatus theologico - politicus thinks that practical religion ought always to be , simple piety ...
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... Greek Opnoкeía , which means outward worship of the gods . In the Epistle of St. James ( i . 26 , 27 ) , we have Opηoкeía , reli- gious worship , and the adjective Opñakos , which is rendered by religious , in the Vulgate by religiosus ...
... Greek Opnoкeía , which means outward worship of the gods . In the Epistle of St. James ( i . 26 , 27 ) , we have Opηoкeía , reli- gious worship , and the adjective Opñakos , which is rendered by religious , in the Vulgate by religiosus ...
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... Greek ' Iovdaïouós , which is retained in the Vulgate as Judaismus . Lastly , in the Acts , xxv . 19 , they had certain questions against him of their own supersti- tion , and of one Jesus , which was dead , whom Paul affirmed to be ...
... Greek ' Iovdaïouós , which is retained in the Vulgate as Judaismus . Lastly , in the Acts , xxv . 19 , they had certain questions against him of their own supersti- tion , and of one Jesus , which was dead , whom Paul affirmed to be ...
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... Greek word theologos was used originally in a different sense . Thus Homer and Hesiod were called theologi ( Herodotus , ii . 53 ) , not in the modern sense of theologians , but as conversant with the origin and history of the gods ...
... Greek word theologos was used originally in a different sense . Thus Homer and Hesiod were called theologi ( Herodotus , ii . 53 ) , not in the modern sense of theologians , but as conversant with the origin and history of the gods ...
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... Greek in Italian , as spoken by the common people in the South of Italy . He thought that the occupation of the country by the Greeks , when the South of Italy was called Magna Graecia , ought to have left at least a few vestiges behind ...
... Greek in Italian , as spoken by the common people in the South of Italy . He thought that the occupation of the country by the Greeks , when the South of Italy was called Magna Graecia , ought to have left at least a few vestiges behind ...
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