Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... Greek Oeós , though neither of these etymologies is in strict accordance with phonetic rules 1 , and that deva meant originally , bright . This is extremely important as showing us that one of the many conceptions of the Divine started ...
... Greek Oeós , though neither of these etymologies is in strict accordance with phonetic rules 1 , and that deva meant originally , bright . This is extremely important as showing us that one of the many conceptions of the Divine started ...
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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 Opηokela , which means outward worship of the gods . In the Epistle of St. James ( i . 26 , 27 ) , we have Opηoxeía , reli- gious worship , and the adjective Opĥoкos , which is rendered by religious , in the Vulgate by religiosus ...
... Greek Opηokela , which means outward worship of the gods . In the Epistle of St. James ( i . 26 , 27 ) , we have Opηoxeía , reli- gious worship , and the adjective Opĥoкos , 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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Page 111 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 145 - to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. That was called A-diti, the un-bound, the unbounded ; one might almost say, but for fear of misunderstandings,
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