Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1888Longmans, Green, 1892 - 608 pages |
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... acts , of cult and ceremony . Thus Cicero distinctly explains religio by cultus deorum , and he declares that the religion of the Romans is divided into sacra , 1 Liv . ii . 62 , ' Ut numine aliquo defensa castra oppugnare iterum ...
... acts , of cult and ceremony . Thus Cicero distinctly explains religio by cultus deorum , and he declares that the religion of the Romans is divided into sacra , 1 Liv . ii . 62 , ' Ut numine aliquo defensa castra oppugnare iterum ...
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... Acts of the Apostles , xxvi . 5 , we read : ' I lived a Pharisee after the most straitest sect of our religion . ' Here religion , in the Vulgate , religio , corresponds to the Greek Opnoкeía , which means outward worship of the gods ...
... Acts of the Apostles , xxvi . 5 , we read : ' I lived a Pharisee after the most straitest sect of our religion . ' Here religion , in the Vulgate , religio , corresponds to the Greek Opnoкeía , which means outward worship of the gods ...
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... 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 alive , ' we have in Greek deioidaiμovía , which really means the fear of the gods , and ...
... 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 alive , ' we have in Greek deioidaiμovía , which really means the fear of the gods , and ...
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... acts are stimulated either by feeling or by knowledge , by percepts or by concepts . A feeling of pain makes us act in one way , a feeling of pleasure in another . mere perception of distance makes the crow fly direct , that is by the ...
... acts are stimulated either by feeling or by knowledge , by percepts or by concepts . A feeling of pain makes us act in one way , a feeling of pleasure in another . mere perception of distance makes the crow fly direct , that is by the ...
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... acts . The object of religion must be defined . There is , however , a much more serious difficulty in this definition , and this may best be discovered , if we examine the same definition as we find it in a very similar wording in the ...
... acts . The object of religion must be defined . There is , however , a much more serious difficulty in this definition , and this may best be discovered , if we examine the same definition as we find it in a very similar wording in the ...
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